Week 1 EOC About Me

When I was a young boy growing up I wanted to be a paleontologist, and have a blast digging up dinosaur bones. Every young child has dreams of what they’ll grow up doing. The chances of them actually making a career out of those childhood dreams are relatively small I’m willing to bet. There’s nothing wrong with that though. We grow and develop all the while our interest change, that’s just life. For me this so called path I have taken that has gotten me to where I am now. Hasn’t been the most direct path but it has made me who I am. As a child, photography was never on my horizons. Sure I liked to take pictures as a lot of kids do, but I never thought I would be pursuing it like I am now. Simply put I was at a loss at what to do for awhile then I came upon high school and I started thinking since I like cars so much, why not go to school to learn how to work on them? I went on to go to Universal Technical Institute for automotive repair, enjoyed it, learned plenty, and graduated. Started working in the field for a little bit and it just wasn’t the same. It started losing its appeal quickly. I continued on and all the while I was picking up my camera more and more often. I only had a point and shoot camera, but I knew I wanted a DSLR so I could take even better shots. So I stepped it up to bigger camera. Started taking more pictures and before I knew it I was going back to school and taking photography classes. I knew this was something I wanted to continue even more. I had an even better feeling about it than when I was working on cars. Sure they are totally different but something about cameras has become more appealing to me. I can still incorporate cars into it by taking pictures of them. When you’re able to combine two loves into one, it’s a great thing. Another part of photography that I have gotten into is fashion modeling shots. Taking pictures of an attractive woman is a great thing. Don’t think I’m one sided about what gender I would shoot though, I just haven’t worked with any men so far. It all equals more business, which is of course what I want. As for what type of business I actually want I’m not sure. You can either work for yourself or work for someone else. Each has their own pros and cons. Come to think of it it’s possible to do both which would be even better. It would be twice the work, but it would be worth it. You’ve got to push yourself for what you want. No one is going to hand it to you, as nice as that sounds there is no reward in it. No sense of accomplishment. Also no respect, which is very important. I’ve got to gain that, by working at the bottom and climbing up through the ranks. It will be worth it though in the end. When you do something you enjoy it makes it that much less of a job, and that’s what I’m going for here. I couldn’t be the type of person that comes in daily just to sit on their ass and stare at computer screen all day, every day. My job will get me out there doing various type of shoots, and then the editing which I like to do as well. Of course this is talking ideally. I’ve got to put myself out there now, network and meet the right people.

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