On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:21 PM, aimcompute wrote: > Now I've come to realize that if it was my sole means of making a > living, > the fun would be gone and it would be like most other professions. Fun > and > exciting at first, followed by periods of satisfaction, followed by > periods > of realizing that this can get pretty boring, followed by periods of > acceptance that this really boring, followed by periods of the only > reason > I'm doing this anymore is for the money.
...and I know guys who complain of exactly this. Actually, some of my friends who have made good names for themselves as freelance photographic assistants are doing much better in the job satisfaction department than some of the others who have steady shooting gigs, since they're working with different people doing different things every day. The poor souls doing catalog, on the other hand... > The one exception to the this might be if travel and landscape > photography > was the only thing I did. Shooting what somebody else wants, wouldn't > thrill me. Travel is apparently really hard to make money at if it's your only gig. The few people I know who aspire to that line of work are either shooting weddings or assisting to pay the rent. > It's nice to go out and shoot, knowing that supper on the table doesn't > depend on the results. Amen! > OT: Have you seen any Ultraman, a 60's Japanese sci-fi series? I'm > thinking of obtaining some. Never seen it. Is it bad-good or genuinely-good? :) -Aaron - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
