I'm trying to think of a way to get me a job and earn some money. At the moment the problem isn't that I can't work, but that I don't have credible Work Experience out in the world. Tried almost every place around me and they just keep passing my resume over since it's easier to higher someone with experience than to train them *Or so i'm being told*. One thing i'm thinking of doing is buying the domain rights to a site then post up my stuff about being a photographer. Would advertise that i'm into Macro Photography and if a company needs shots done for a product I can do it.

Only problem is the company would need to send me a sample product since this would be done nationally and I can't just pull up going anywhere in the US. Know this plan is a long shot since most major companies have their own in house photographers however I feel that I have to try something.

Anyone have any advice to give me and how to go about doing this? One thing i'm totally clueless on is how to pay taxes on this stuff so I don't garner the ire of the IRS.

Sorry, you haven't been very explicit. You want to get a job as a photographer? Or are you looking for any job at all? Part time or full time?

Right now getting a job in FL or rather in my city seems to be near impossible so i'm going to try to do some photography work. The photography would be full time and i'm wondering if anyone has advice about those that start up their own companies. Example would be how to file taxes, get yourself out there, clientele, etc... and how to make sure you can secure your funds so you don't get screwed.

Hope that explains things a bit better i'm still trying to figure it out myself. At the moment it's not that I don't have the degree or education to get a job, but the fact I don't have work experience which people want. Done job searches, local ad searches, etc... and every single one wants 2 to 4 years experience of work. So i'm just going to go with photography for right now until I can find a place to get me some work experience. *Note: The 2 to 4 years experience being in the "Entry Level/Apprentice" job listings"

You might have some luck doing stock photos, but you need to have literally hundreds of high quality stock photos to actually make a noticable amount of money from them. Im not sure about how it works in america, but in england you dont pay tax's until you earn over a certain amount. I believe its 7k with a business. I'm not too sure, I'm onlny just doing my research into such things.

You could do what my friend does, she goes to charity shops and buys furniture/games/books/clothes. She'll literally buy ￡200 worth from each shop and then take it home. She reconditions the furniture/games and puts them up on ebay, the clothes she customises and turns into something nice and puts it in her shop in afflecks in manchester. Girls earning enough to put her through university and pay for a city center apartment.

I'm not saying do exactly as she does, but the idea of buying cheap stuff and fixing it up for ebay seems to work for alot of people.

as for you're resume, sometimes people want some one with experience, but some times its easier to get some one without too much experience as it can be harder to train some one for a new role once they are used to another than it is to train some one from scratch.

I can't help you with setting up a business, but I'm in the exact same boat with trying to get a job with little to no experience. I'm going for a promotion within my current company which would give me the exp. to go for something else, but before that position came up I was looking at internships/volunteer work. There's normally a lot of volunteer work out there for charities, some of which might help depending on what you need experience in. It might even be worth offering your services to a company you like and see what happens. Even if they don't end up employing you, you've still got the experience under your belt. Of course that all depends on if you can work for free and live with parents or something - I'd have to fit it around my "real" job, which would be a pain (although it would look great on a CV I bet). With volunteer work you tend to be able to choose your hours, so you could do a little bit just for the exp. while you do photography for money.

Ya I tried the stock photo route through a website and i'm thinking that I probably got screwed over to put it bluntly. Love to do stock photography for like game textures and the like however i'm not sure how easy it would be to do that. Right now the US is pretty tricky with taxes since the economy is bad so i'm just curious how things will work out.

As far as fixing things up that's something I didn't think about and I do like to do that. However it becomes problematic since people don't want to spend too much and I would have to recoup what I paid for at the consignment shop. Though I will definitely keep that idea in mind incase I can't get the photography thing to work out for me.



Tried to volunteer at the consignment shop I mentioned that is near me since they are semi-charity based having most of the profits going to a church. However the lady said she didn't need help right now and to check back in the summer time. So I was kind of SoL there and i'm still trying to look around. Hope you get your promotion Chineapplepunk


Right now my experience is literally everywhere due to what i've studied in HS as well as what i've studied in College:

1. Computer Programming: Learned C++ and it's been a while since i've done it, but my skill is in deconstruction/code anolyzing seeing what does what then modifying it to suit my needs. *Note: This skill came in handy when I was learning what was doing what in the FONV GECK to make a test run with my own challenge skill.*

2. Website Design, Layout, and Construction: It's in my sig and I run my own website. Picked out a template from a free site and took the coding making the site my own giving credit to the original creator.

3. Photography: When I was young I assisted my Uncle who was a professional wedding photographer. Took 3 classes at a local CC and began doing my own photography with my Canon 350D DSLR.

4. Science: Wanted to be a Geneticist as a kid and kept wanting to do that in HS, but College had me change my mind because Chemistry II got very complicated. *Not to mention 4 hurricanes forcing the college to close causing me to foul up my work not doing the lab assignments.* Studied several areas of Science including Computers, Chemistry, Physics, Theoretical Physics, and some other misc. areas.

5. History of Film, Television and Genre Studies: Studied the history of film and movies going into several different areas such as sci-fi, western, and Horror films.

6. Business Skills: Trained as a Typist in HS to where my highest WPM was 78 and could file documents appropriately categorizing them into different areas such as date, alphabetically, sub categories, etc... .

Have some other skills, but those would be my primary skills to draw from.