When I graduated with my degree in graphic design from Sacramento State University, California, finding the job I wanted was tough.
I worked mostly full-time through college for an amazingly talented woman with 3 children who owned an advertising agency she ran out of her home (Hint: Inspiration for starting Bourn Creative). By the time I graduated, I had completed four internships and several intern/student projects — yes, I’ve always been a driven, over-achiever.
Upon graduation I wanted to work at a big agency, I dreamed of working my way up the agency ladder to Creative Director — and I was willing to do the work to make it happen. Then reality hit. I began looking for a job in my last semester of college. I researched the creative companies in and around Sacramento, researched who was hiring, researched who their clients, were, what their mission, was, what they stood for and represented. I figured out who I wanted to work for and why … then I applied.
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You see, we may be a Sacramento web design firm, but believe it or not, most of our clients are spread out across the United States and the world in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa, and more — and they find us from referrals and content.
In July 2011, 
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