You can be completely average talent wise, get a job at an ad agency and 5-7 years later be a creative director making bank.
Art school can actually be a great investment if you want to do creative work for hire.
Art school can actually be a great investment if you want to do creative work for hire.
If you are a creative director, you have people working under you.
How do you all get to be creative directors?
You'd be surprised how many high-level creative positions are available, especially in games. It's kinda political to get a position of course. But being an artist is pretty sustainable if you're willing to put out work for a studio of that sort.
IME, the people that wanted to go to art school, weren't interested in what is taught design school, and vice versa.