what do you see yourself doing in the future?
i envisioned myself doing characters... as in i was gonna do mascots and stuff... and do logos on the side. or mascots with logos...
and the only jobs they were offering in my area of location were web... i don't like web... i had to move on. then, i went to game art because, hey.. that has a plethora of character opportunity.
recently, my 3D teacher told me that all the art stuff i had been doing were not going to be used with a Bachelors of Arts in game art... it was Illustration and fine arts what i was doing... but he says i am still competent to be a Concept Artist which i need a GAD to be. so im gonna strive for that.
as for your query, GD did technically help me in photoshop, illustrator, and life drawing (i find it weird that you have to learn life drawing in graphic design but whatever, i got to see some tats n tacos... and pens), but either way i would have learned that in the Art Institute had i not transferred nearly all my credits for classes taken.
besides all of that, I drove myself into betterment with photoshop in the area that i mostly desired all on my own. Eventually i got better at making characters in the digital space... albeit i still constantly use Undo. I use deviantart as my source of drive and inspiration by watching all the famous artists. (genzoman, artgerm, ReiQuintero (formerly known as Reiq), Ganassa, toolkitten (formerly known as Bakanekonei), and a plethora of others as well as groups.