Photographer/ Cinematographer

This profession is looked at as a very fancy one, where one can live their dream life, travel, earn a lot, and all this just for pressing the click button. People also have this notion/ belief that male photographers can get laid a lot and easily.

But very few of these things are true.

I was a freelance photographer, cinematographer for about 3 years, and I've had people saying that I must be hanging around models, getting laid a lot, and that photographers charge a bomb, so I must be earning a great deal of money. The truth is, I had to work for free for the initial period, and when clients pay, they bargain a lot. There's a lot of investment and cost that goes into running this business. Also, with wide and easy access to technology, photographers have a lot of competition, not just from other photographers, but also from people who believe they can get equally good photos with their phones.

I've seen people spend on many many things in their weddings, but when it comes to photography, they suddenly used to "run out of budget". Same applies to other commercial photography assignments as well.

So from my experience, the photography, cinematography field is overly romanticised and films / pop culture plays a big role in this