Swimming in Quicksand..
Its been a while since I've posted here.. So..
Money is always a problem for me. I have bills that need to be payed, but it just never seems like I can get enough of it fast enough to pay everything off. Just when I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, something else pops up to burry me back in.
I owe $8000 grand in credit cards. When I had a job, that wasn't so bad. In fact, what I originally owed was closer to $13000, but after paying a lot of it off. At one point it was like $6000 a little less than half. Then I lost my job, and I have been playing catch up ever since..except, I'm losing ground, and not really catching up.
I'm currently starting my third job since August. My first job for Lifetouch was seasonal, and just runs from August to December, but I was low man on the totem pole, and got laid off in November. I was out of work less than a week, and worked for a company doing medical surveys. It was boring work, but it put money in my pocket. They hired me in anticipation of getting a major contract and needing more people on the phones. But the contract never materialized, and my job dematerialized in Janurary. I found a job as a sports Photographer. Fun stuff, other than being in a cold ice hockey rink most of the time (I REALLY hate the cold.) And I am getting to work with some equipment that I didn't have experience with previously. Also, I am still teaching digital photography classes in the evening.
Right now the money for the sports photography is OK.. I just started, and have to prove myself, but once I am working full time on the weekends, and he knows my images will sell, the guy who runs the business will up my wages quite a bit. Enough to actually start to give me some financial momentum.
I am also looking for paid model shoots. I have been doing TFCD, but I am tired of that. The studio, my equipment, and everythign else costs money. I need to start earning enough to pay for all of that, and to be able to improve my studio.
The one obstacle in the way of that is that my left eye has started to bother me. In my first assignment as a "paid" photographer, I was working for trade of services, but my eye made it hard enough for me to edit images, that I ended up turning over a mostly unedited image folder. And there are models still waiting for images from me.
I have been trying to rest my eye for the past two or three weeks in hopes that my eye will get better.. But it seems to feel either better or worse on a daily basis. I am just about getting panicky enough about it, that I might actually go to a clinic to find out what is happening. I need to get it taken care of, because until I do, editing images is actually becoming a painful and uncomfortable process.
Anyway, I need to get some rest, I am still trying to recover from a very long and tiring weekend. I feel like someone took their time in finding every muscle in my body and beating it with a bamboo stick.
Money is always a problem for me. I have bills that need to be payed, but it just never seems like I can get enough of it fast enough to pay everything off. Just when I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, something else pops up to burry me back in.
I owe $8000 grand in credit cards. When I had a job, that wasn't so bad. In fact, what I originally owed was closer to $13000, but after paying a lot of it off. At one point it was like $6000 a little less than half. Then I lost my job, and I have been playing catch up ever since..except, I'm losing ground, and not really catching up.
I'm currently starting my third job since August. My first job for Lifetouch was seasonal, and just runs from August to December, but I was low man on the totem pole, and got laid off in November. I was out of work less than a week, and worked for a company doing medical surveys. It was boring work, but it put money in my pocket. They hired me in anticipation of getting a major contract and needing more people on the phones. But the contract never materialized, and my job dematerialized in Janurary. I found a job as a sports Photographer. Fun stuff, other than being in a cold ice hockey rink most of the time (I REALLY hate the cold.) And I am getting to work with some equipment that I didn't have experience with previously. Also, I am still teaching digital photography classes in the evening.
Right now the money for the sports photography is OK.. I just started, and have to prove myself, but once I am working full time on the weekends, and he knows my images will sell, the guy who runs the business will up my wages quite a bit. Enough to actually start to give me some financial momentum.
I am also looking for paid model shoots. I have been doing TFCD, but I am tired of that. The studio, my equipment, and everythign else costs money. I need to start earning enough to pay for all of that, and to be able to improve my studio.
The one obstacle in the way of that is that my left eye has started to bother me. In my first assignment as a "paid" photographer, I was working for trade of services, but my eye made it hard enough for me to edit images, that I ended up turning over a mostly unedited image folder. And there are models still waiting for images from me.
I have been trying to rest my eye for the past two or three weeks in hopes that my eye will get better.. But it seems to feel either better or worse on a daily basis. I am just about getting panicky enough about it, that I might actually go to a clinic to find out what is happening. I need to get it taken care of, because until I do, editing images is actually becoming a painful and uncomfortable process.
Anyway, I need to get some rest, I am still trying to recover from a very long and tiring weekend. I feel like someone took their time in finding every muscle in my body and beating it with a bamboo stick.