August 2010
3 posts
Trying to hard a fault?
I’m starting to think it has hindered me from actually doing things well… instead of letting things happen more naturally, I like to force something because this is how I feel it should be.
Now I’m wondering maybe I should let a few things just slide.
Well over a year later and I am still working for a company that I morally object to. (see way earlier post). On the one hand, I have to pay my bills, on the other hand, I am putting others in my industry out of work and undercutting their prices so drastically that it makes it impossible to survive. And the icing on the cake is it is just not healthy to be in such strong conflict with yourself...
July 2010
5 posts
NYC Branded →
wow
I forgot all about this. hmmm.
September 2009
2 posts
August 2009
3 posts
Bitches
I would like to say I met the most pretentious person today… but that would actually have to involve this person TALKING to me… Instead of staring through me as if I didn’t exist, and making a point to walk 3 feet ahead of me. WTF?! I mean, honestly, you hired me LADY! It was shocking, SHOCKING! I’ve come across my fair share of “entitled” individuals, but...
I feel I have contributed to the undermining of photographers and the photography industry. I have quite the moral dilemma every time I work for my contract company. But, as a starving, struggling photographer, can I really afford to turn away work… really? Not when the other option is to work for free.
Maybe I’ll just accumulate astronomically high debt… seems to be the...
I have decided that inactivity breeds the desire to not work.
January 2009
6 posts
I firmly believe that New York City is the only place in the world where people compete to work for free. I think that is quite ridiculous. Now employers almost EXPECTED for people to work for free. This makes no sense. NYC happens to be one of the MOST expensive place to live (I mean, I don’t know about you, but I cry every time I write a check the first of each month to the tune of...
I assisted a “photographer” (if you could even call her that) the other day. I’d like to say it was a terrible experience because she didn’t know anything about what she was doing, but I can’t really… I mean, being the only one on set who knew anything about cameras, lights, laws of reciprocity, etc., it was quite beneficial for me to be told “look,...
I wish I had more things going on… or at least the uncanny ability to make even boring lives sound enthralling. Ah well.
November 2008
1 post
September 2008
4 posts
So today I had my first training session with “my replacement”. And after a full 1.25 hour assessment of this person’s capabilities and qualifications, I have this analysis to make: They’re Fucked.
In the corporate world, one would be shocked to find the individual who has never used Word, Excel, or Power point. He/she would be such a rarity. Well, this abnormality...
So a week ago today I quit my job, fully aware of the current financial situation. And if I wasn’t aware, I am now thanks to all the doubting looks I am receiving from my soon-to-be EX coworkers. And the looks only get better when I tell them that no, I DON’T have a job lined up.
I’m sure they’re thinking that without having to pay my 50K salary, there might just be a...
August 2008
2 posts
