You know when you walk into a bank or credit union and apply for a loan? I sell them products and services that help them decide to either approve you or decline you.
Went from student and full-time photog to just a regular full time photog for about 3 years to to part-time photog when I became a home inspector about 8 months ago. I also do all the web, marketing, IT, etc for our small firm.
www.homeproinspections.com
We also are modular home builders for the entire mid-Atlantic and Northeast region. Everything from bungalows to 7000 sq. ft. luxury mansions. (Don't worry, I'll be completely re-doing the website very, very soon. They got ripped off hard when they bought this POS).
25+ yrs in IT, 9 yrs with running my own business (while still working in IT), and my hobbies has been from build my own furniture, oil painting, write and published poetry & short stories (in my native language), and now photography just recently.
I'm an engineer by day. Mostly because I couldn't make a living at photography. It's true I think, a lot of engineers are not creative. For me personally, I am quite technical, with a little creativity, and quite enjoy the technical aspect of photography, i.e. trying to solve the problem of how to do I capture a particular scene.
Ziffl3 wrote:
mech/process engineer in semiconductor land ....
play w/ 10um mirrors.....
love the escape that wedding photog presents........
You must work at Texas Instruments!
<-- Engineer in semiconductor R&D. Days away from becoming a student (again), but I think a Ph.D counts more as a job than a student, if you treat it as such. Camera sensors are really cool when you know how they work at the electron level
I don't shoot weddings, unless somebody in SD wants a second shooter but I do like the creativity of photography. Just wish I could shut of the technical side of my brain at times.
There are plenty of creative types in engineering, a lot more than given for the stereotype. Lots of music-y people.
heli_guy wrote:
I'm an engineer by day. Mostly because I couldn't make a living at photography. It's true I think, a lot of engineers are not creative. For me personally, I am quite technical, with a little creativity, and quite enjoy the technical aspect of photography, i.e. trying to solve the problem of how to do I capture a particular scene.
Easy there heli_guy .... i know both types of engineers.
ones that can design just about anything and others that could not design there way out of a box or a cube!!!!!!!
The guy/gals stuck in a cube....... they could spend a day telling you about the intricacies of the coating on the back element of a lens ......talk about it wave length properties.....Blah, blah, blah ....
Daniel Heineck wrote:
You must work at Texas Instruments!
<-- Engineer in semiconductor R&D. Days away from becoming a student (again), but I think a Ph.D counts more as a job than a student, if you treat it as such. Camera sensors are really cool when you know how they work at the electron level
I don't shoot weddings, unless somebody in SD wants a second shooter but I do like the creativity of photography. Just wish I could shut of the technical side of my brain at times.
There are plenty of creative types in engineering, a lot more than given for the stereotype. Lots of music-y people.
I do think a lot of engineers are not creative, and have a bit more of a technical side (otherwise they wouldn't be creative). However, I will say that good engineers must have some creativity to create the things they create. Which are quite amazing sometimes.
I was just stating my state of affairs. I envy a lot of photographers who can capture amazing scenes with technical and creative perfection. Wish I could do that too... Perhaps someday.
Don't worry though, I won't spend the day talking about the coating on the back element of a lens... I would rather be using it .
