If you wait around to read the email when it pours into your inbox, will you ever have time to take pictures?
How many ideas will you miss by chasing the next best thing rather than finishing the project you’ve already started?
If you continue taking those crappy gigs that generate dogpoop looking photos or films, will you ever have time to create the ones you want?
What is the cost of doing things that your industry says are “normal”?
How many pictures will you let pass you by if you wait till you get a better camera, better lights, or better vision?
If you do what your teacher tells you to do without pushing the boundaries of photo school, will your work look just like everybody’s in your class?
How old will you be when you finally quit your day job because it sucks?
When was the last time you …created an uninterrupted day for yourself to do the things that you wanted to do, rather than attended to “obligations” that weren’t really obligations at all?
It’s great to please the world. To be a citizen, to answer the phone, to go out of your way, to… to…. to… But every once in a while, it’s healthy to do things on your own terms. Take a break from reacting and choose your own adventure this weekend.
Inspirational but, sometimes it takes a push to make you see the light. The company I was working for made cut backs and I made a decision to follow my dreams. I leave for 5 months of photographing India on Saturday.
PS – I am also doing this trip to save money, India is much cheaper than where I live and the little money I have will last longer there.
Easy to speak when you are able to generate income. I’ve lost my previous job in 2007, and since then, i wasn’t unable to generate any serious income from my photography. And I study a lot, but it looks that is something wrong, can somebody help me find out what is wrong with my images?
I printed this and hung it next to my desk. This is very inspirational.
Thanks Chase.
> How old will you be when you finally quit your day job because it sucks?
I’ll be 35. I’m starting at SFAI in 4 months, a month after my 35th birthday, finally pursuing my childhood dream of going to art school and giving myself a chance to produce great art and see if I can make a living at it.
Ah Chase… the Seth Godin of photographers… 🙂
Seriously, great post. Jason