Tim Gruber’s second post on making money doing what you love is exactly what’s been on my mind lately:
“It’s about having different aspects of ourselves, having the artist within us but also having the entrepreneur and the businessperson within us as well. And when we can bring all those parts together we can find the people that want what we do.”
- Nick Williams
I guess it really comes down to that, finding people that want what we do. But hearing about Roger Ballen’s career in Geology and how personal and separate his photography is from everything else is still an alluring model to go about life. Some people have the knack of using the pressure of making a living off of your passion to drive themselves and their creativity. I wish I could understand how those people see it.
But relegating photographers who don’t make a business out of their photography to a category of “leisure” is something I disagree with. The idea of being a “professional” only when your income is derived from your photography is inaccurate.
Like a lot of other photographers out there, I really wish I would had spent more time studying business while I was in school. I hope it doesn’t take as long to understand business as it does to learn how to take decent photographs, ikes. But I really echo Gruber’s sentiments, particularly when it comes to setting your own personal goals of success and putting focus on becoming a better human over everything else.
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