Forum: Photography


Subject: My Future (Need some advice)

BrockLawson opened this issue on Jul 19, 2005 ยท 22 posts


BrockLawson posted Tue, 19 July 2005 at 12:36 PM

Hey everyone, well considering I think of many of you as family I have a pretty important question to ask. So I've been pretty depressed lately. You see I am at the age of 19 and should have already been in college for a year but I haven't. For I can't decide what I want to go into at all. I know it is either between Photography or Car Modifying. I love both but cannot decide between the two. I am leaning towards photography but I am kind of wondering. Now I'm wondering, do you find it necesary to go to school for Photography to make a career out of it? Is it hard to make a career out of something such as Photography? Because if it was possible I would like to do both things. Go to school for Car Modification and do Photography as a said thing until I was recognized enough to get a job at a Publication of some sort. It has been really bothering me because my parents are not very supportive of either choices. They tell me all the time, "You won't make any money doing that, there is no career in that." But they just won't realize that I don't exactly care about money. Life is short and I'd rather be doing something I love and enjoying life then dreading waking up every morning. So basically I just want some advice. What is it like being a Professional Photographer? Is the pay decent enough to have a rather comfortable life? Is it worth it? Along with the questions I asked above. Really just about anything that has to do with the above topic please post it up. I need to decide soon and every day I feel worse about it. My apologies that the post is so long but I feel it was all needed to say. Thank you in advance Renderosity! ~Brock