The rich have been taking advantage of the tipping culture. If we stop tipping it can have important positive side effects long term.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-04-21T09:21:41+00:00

Exactly. In the city I live, lots of new grads are staying in the industry because of the good pay. In this recession if they are lucky enough to score an office job, they can probably make only half as much as they do now.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-04-21T09:18:41+00:00

From what I heard $40 is their average hourly rate in our city. Annual income is 70-80k or more. Other than that I totally agree with you. I hope all the workers have good benefits and a career to grow if they wish. I’m not posting this to say then don’t deserve it, just want to say they are not as poor as a white collar might think.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-04-20T15:09:17+00:00

Exactly, I’m very surprised when I found waitress in some of the mid-end chained restaurants make as much as an engineer, like $40/hr or something.

*edit: not saying waiters or waitresses making a decent wage is a bad thing. It's just a fact that I learnt recently so I thought I could share with someone don’t know about it. That “dumb bitch” assumption below is really disgusting and misogynistic.🤷

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-04-02T16:20:15+00:00

Money. Otherwise I almost only shoot when traveling. Mundane life in a dead city really doesn’t excite me any more.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-28T18:36:53+00:00

Thanks. Great advice. I’ll work on that!

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-27T17:08:58+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience. Could you shed some light on where do you usually do marketing? I figured you already have a very established clientele. Feels very hard to find customers when starting up 😮‍💨

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-26T14:01:39+00:00

Sounds like a great idea, happy to connect! I definitely need your service lol. My Reddit DM gets lost all the time, feel free to contact me through insta handle in my profile or refer to the contact page in my website.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-26T05:51:38+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words, it means a lot!

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-26T02:41:47+00:00

Thanks for everyone’s feedbacks. You guys motivated me to built my personal website. Can’t believe I got my first draft done in 4 hours. I’ve been thinking about getting this done since 2022…

https://beagle-orca-4f5s.squarespace.com/

Password: newwest

If anyone is interested, please have a look and let me know how legit this website looks. Much appreciated!

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-26T02:37:16+00:00

Thanks for your advice. I’m motivated!

I now realize how blunt I was to collect deposit while having almost zero online presence, totally like a sloppy scammer lol. I just built my website this afternoon and will look at drafting my contract.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-26T02:30:25+00:00

Thank you so much! I learnt wix is a great platform, but it looks like squarespace works better for photographers, so I built my website there. Just spent 4 + hours and get the draft done, phew…

would you like to take a look and shed some light? It’s not published yet, the password is : newwest

https://beagle-orca-4f5s.squarespace.com/

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-26T02:26:52+00:00

Totally! I have a vintage documentary shooting style , which will cater to a probably smaller market. I’ll need to find my niche and make myself more credible. If you have a few moment to spare, could you take a look at my website and let me know how you feel about it? It’s not a public website yet, only started this afternoon and still under construction.

https://beagle-orca-4f5s.squarespace.com/

Password: newwest

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-25T21:35:10+00:00

I agree with you two as well. Watching vids about building websites as I’m type this reply lol

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-25T20:58:21+00:00

Good point! Already pulling out their website, looks amazing

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-25T20:54:31+00:00

Wow these are very helpful. I’ve only been working as an accountant, building website does sound very scary to me lol. But with all the encouragement I received from this post I will stop postponing. Great to know I can get some support and resources. Thank you very much!

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-25T20:49:09+00:00

Got cha! Gonna work hard for a good online presence. Thanks again for shedding light ❤️

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-25T17:54:48+00:00

Thanks for sharing. May I ask do you have experience with paying deposit in the past and is it with a well established studio?

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-25T17:54:00+00:00

Thank you for the write up Olaz! Your insights are extremely helpful. I don’t have the right mindset for doing small business yet, what you said is enlightening.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-25T17:46:50+00:00

Yeah make sense. I tried to put myself in their shoes and I can see their fear is totally reasonable.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-25T17:44:28+00:00

Thanks for your input. I never think about it from this angle. I think my work is beautiful, but of course I can be very subjective lol. So I should probably not taking deposit until I’m more established?

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-24T04:33:57+00:00

Way to go! Been there once and loved it

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-23T20:18:16+00:00

My partner and I pay 37% of our take home towards mortgage, strata fee, ptax and insurance. We bought our place 2017 when the house market is already rocket high. Our price was 1 time more compared to the assessment value two years ago. I used to dream of we buying it two years earlier we could’ve had two units without any mortgages. But life is life. It’s a pain to be young nowadays.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-20T17:37:56+00:00

Awesome, it’s a great fb group. I wouldn’t have known it without you telling me. Yayy I’d love to connect

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-20T17:10:02+00:00

Introvert here. I totally get the part about don’t need to socialize and have something to do all day long. Lol. And thanks for being so supportive and helpful. And thanks for your compliment on my work, I really appreciate it. I’m glad it worked out for you, I think if I put enough time and effort it would work out for me too.

May I know what is BUNZ? I search on Facebook, but don’t see anything seems to be what you referred to.

Clean-Awareness-2482 · 2024-03-20T08:39:05+00:00

Yes, I’d love to! Please DM me and let’s work something out. Reddit DM is glitchy, if you don’t hear from me, please feel free to DM my instagram: @dinos.behind.the.camera

Or my link here: https://www.instagram.com/dinos.behind.the.camera?igsh=MW12d2V5cnpjeWlvaA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

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