Jahbs

[Miriel]

I work as a photographer. I've always done photography as a hobby and I started learning how to develop and shoot film since the 4th grade. Was doing my own thing and found that people would actually pay me to take pictures. Now I do it full time! It's fantastic to be in a creative field and it can be so rewarding sometimes, but being a small business owner is incredibly stressful too. Sometimes I envy people who have a standard 9-5 job. There is almost never a long period of time when I'm not thinking about my business, the finances, clients, answering emails at 1 in the morning, etc. It's on my mind ALL the time. It think there's very little distinction between my work life and my non-work life. Even in my "off" hours, I'm still reading about industry news, looking at blogs of other photographers, keeping up with what Canon is doing, figuring out how to budget for new lenses, and even just browsing fun sites like Photojojo. Even when watching movies I'm paying a lot of attention to the cinematography, the lighting, getting inspiration. It consumes my life.

Eventually I will move towards opening up my own restaurants, but that's all in the future.