anyone here have another career besides photography?

Ms_jessica · Sep 19, 2006

im just curious who here has another career completely different from photography, but still is capable of making money doing photo as well? I'm just stuck with what i want to do. I'm coming close to getting into a field that I'm having second thoughts with, and the only reason i can think of getting into that field is the money. But i truly love photo, and i want to know what i can do with it. Or do any of you think its possible to carry on two different careers?

mentos_007 · Sep 19, 2006

yes, why not? my "money", as I can call my earnings, come from teaching English. I study Electronics and would like to stay in this field. Photograhy is my passion but I rarely make money out of it.

JDS · Sep 19, 2006

I'm sorta going in reverse to what you're asking - I'm currently a network engineer. Over the past year or so, I've been getting into photography more and more, and am slowly (but surely!) trying to build up a business out of it so I can quit my 'real' job.

KevinR · Sep 19, 2006

My day job is teacher, but I'm trying to build up a photo career for when I'm off during the summers.

Tiberius · Sep 19, 2006

Define "Making Money". I've sold a few prints and done a few portrait sessions for small amounts of money, but nothing huge or regular. My "real job" is a programmer/web designer while I work my way through college, ideally ending up with a job in Academia/Research eventually.

Digital Matt · Sep 19, 2006

I've been a professional musician for 16 years, and a graphic designer for the last 2 1/2. I like to make money from both, and photography as well.

LaFoto · Sep 19, 2006

I don't make any money with my photos :cry:
I only PAY for things photography-related :cry:

I am a translator.
More so a housewife, though.

L146705 · Sep 19, 2006

i am a web entrepreneur on the side

tgates · Sep 19, 2006

LaFoto said:
I don't make any money with my photos :cry:
I only PAY for things photography-related :cry:

Same here!!

I'm a quality specialist for a highend office furniture manufacturer - that's how the bills get paid....including the photography related bills!

Soocom1 · Sep 19, 2006

My primary is CAD monkey, making maps for the BIA and various Indian tribes. I am also getting into ESRI and other cartography programs.

morydd · Sep 19, 2006

I'm a theater lighting technician.
Photography is an expensive hobby. I'm still trying to get to the point where I can make any money, let alone a break-even amount.

fotogenik · Sep 20, 2006

I am a MIcrosoft Certified Systems Administrator. Currently working as a Network Operations Technician, until I can build my photography business to the point it supports me and my family.

That will likely be when my kids have all grown and moved out and it is just my wife and I. That will be nice I think.

craig · Sep 20, 2006

I work for a paper doing 80% photography and 20% pre press production. Plus a freelance photo business on the side. Working for the paper is comfortable and I have a lot of insurance.

My freelance generally runs hot and cold. The "off seasons" have been picking up. Problem is that I am of the age of living comfortably. The other problem is that if I quit the paper and go solo I can potentially make oodles of money.

Photography is not a pretty sight early on. The pay back is that it is a learning experience. Get the sales position if need be. The main thing is to make sure that photography consumes your life and not the sales (or whatever) position.

David · Sep 20, 2006

The photography and image manipulation is a part-time business for me, plus I do a bit of graphic design work when I can. I don't want it to get too big just yet, because I love my full-time job. It's there so that I can develop it more later on if I need and want to.

As for what I do full-time, now please be gentle, I'm a police officer.

David

niccig · Sep 20, 2006

Like several other folks on this forum, I'm in IT. I got into when I started college (as a computer science major) and realized that computers aren't my passion after all. I've since changed my major to art studio (w/concentration in photography) and am hoping to get into a related field when I graduate. Until then, IT gives me some spending money for my camera gear.