>Your job category
Photography Student
Event photographer in the evening/weekends
>Your income
15Eur/h
Usually between 800-1000Eur a month, with is alright as a side job and considering I only really work on the weekends and I'm lucky enough to shoot shit that I like for the most part.
If you are in it for the money you'll have a bad time.
>How hard it is
It's basically partying with a camera. Once your local people know you and your stuff you'll get invited to festivals, other clubs and gigs in other towns.
Shooting is fun and easy, people are great to be around with, post production is slapping one preset over everything and fixing details.
>How long did it take for you to get there.
Around half a year, I got lucky and as always: I knew the right people. As always: "It's Not What You Know. It's Who You Know".
Standing out in the sea of photographers is hard, you have to be special to stand out, be able to market yourself exceptionally well and never sell yourself under value.
>Is it worth giving up your day job.
Yes. I don't have the feeling of killing myself anymore as I had before, don't life only for the weekends, don't work to be able to afford a car to drive to work with to be able to afford a car to drive to work with.
It came down to this when I made the decision to quit: I didn't really want to talk about my job, whenever somebody asked me what I did, I mumbled something about a 9-5 job and tried to change the subject. I'm actually proud to tell people what I do if I get asked nowadays.
