life is just admiring how the chaos arranged itself perfectly, isn't it ?

[MillerD]

Good morning everyone, I'm in my 6th year of medicine studies, and I'm quite in a low mood right now since few month. Photography have always been a great push-up (?) for me... I will finish my studies, but I'm wondering if photography is not something I would rather do

 

[The_Traveler]

God morning.

You have posted several of these photos before and gotten some response.
What is it you would like to accomplish with this set?

Lew

 

[Peeb]

I would expect that medicine is a calling that would demand much of a person.

As is the case with any vocation, you can joyfully (but not always happily*) suffer virtually any hardship if you have a sense of certainty that you are doing what you were put on Earth to do.

*Happiness is the satisfaction you feel when you have precisely what you think that you want.
Joy is the deeper satisfaction you feel when you connect with something greater than yourself.

Wish I could offer something more concrete or profound, but that's about all I've got to offer. Good luck in your search.

 

[Causapscal]

Amen !

 

[DarkShadow]

I would expect that medicine is a calling that would demand much of a person.

As is the case with any vocation, you can joyfully (but not always happily*) suffer virtually any hardship if you have a sense of certainty that you are doing what you were put on Earth to do.

*Happiness is the satisfaction you feel when you have precisely what you think that you want.
Joy is the deeper satisfaction you feel when you connect with something greater than yourself.

Wish I could offer something more concrete or profound, but that's about all I've got to offer. Good luck in your search.

Well Said.

 

[OGsPhotography]

Word.

Dont quit your day job.

 

[astroNikon]

Photography can be highly emotional.

Unfortunately, what *one* person thinks is a fabulous image is not necessarily what other people may think. Since you were *there* when you took the image you also maintain the surroundings and real feeling of being there. If your image doesn't convey that to people that weren't there then it may be missing something.

Have you every heard "you had to be there"? Photography is about "being there" and bringing forth the subject and emotion at hand. Otherwise you're just a tourist taking nice photos.

From seeing your other posts and such you have been given some good advice from some top notch people, far better than me. Learning photography is a learning journey, not just taking neat pictures. It's just not an overnight thing. So much to learn not just technically, but artistically. You live in a fabulous region for capturing stellar images. We have a few people on the board that are from that region that take stunning images.

Though making it as a professional may be another thing. If you try to sell your photos *right now* so you think you can make a living at it? Try it. Then learn what is missing to make a living at it and what it takes.

I'd rather be a doctor myself (with a camera hobby).

 

[Wildcats160]

The best advice I ever got was to stop trying to find a career that I loved. Everyone tells you "find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life." That's great for the 1% of people who can find a lucrative career doing something they truly love to do, but it leaves the other 99% either unemployed or with shattered expectations.

My advice? Find a career that you like and that pays your bills and allows you the money/freedom to engage in hobbies you love. I don't love being an attorney, but I do like it. Realistically, if I was magically given the ability to satisfy all of my financial and life needs without working, I wouldn't do it for free. As it stands though, it's a career that I don't hate, that provides me an adequate amount of professional satisfaction, and which allows me the ability to do the things that I love the rest of the time. Just something to think about.

 

[Advanced Photo]

Concerning your title: life is something different for each person. For me it is a constant and focused attempt to make the lives of those that love me better and fuller. In looking at the world, I don't see self organized chaos at all but the touch of the hand of God on all things great and small. I have always done what I love to do the most and been lucky to have found people that appreciate my efforts and reward me well for enjoying life. I do for a living the same things I did as a kid and I play with the same types of toys, now they are a lot better and are paid for by other people's money.
Look at the list of ocupations with the highest suicide rates and avoid the top 20.
It's harder to enjoy life if you are dead.