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7 Jobs to Skip College For ...
Ric Tapia, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 12:36 PM on 07.25.10 |
->> I disagree to a degree (pun intended).
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-7_jobs_to_skip_college_for-1374
1. Freelance Photographer: $47,800 median salary
Lee says that non-degree jobs tend to fall into one of two categories: technical or entrepreneurial. Being a freelance photographer requires a high degree of business savvy in addition to photography skills. Depending on the type of work you do, you might take product shots, family portraits, corporate head shots, wedding pictures, or other images, and then touch up the pictures digitally and send them to clients for review. |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 1:19 PM on 07.25.10 |
| ->> That "Nuclear Power Reactor Operator" is in the list of things you don't need to go to college for pretty much says it all ;) |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 2:34 PM on 07.25.10 |
| ->> god I love idiotic columns like that. gee wonder why she didn't include herself "freelance writer" in that list? probably because she doesn't make any money for pablum like that......since she probably got that list of "facts" from some online search engine in five minutes |
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Bruce Twitchell, Photographer
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Coeur d'Alene | ID | USA | Posted: 5:17 PM on 07.25.10 |
->> "Being a freelance photographer requires a high degree of business savvy...."
Perhaps going to college for business would be a good idea then, in order to be a successful freelance photographer. |
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Dave Prelosky, Photographer
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Lower Burrell | Pa | US | Posted: 5:52 PM on 07.25.10 |
| ->> Israel - I respectfully disagree with the need for power plant minders to be college grads. I will offer that I wouldn't buy a power plant from a buy without a degree. Or two. |
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Kevin Johnston, Photographer
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Oden | MI | USA | Posted: 6:10 PM on 07.25.10 |
->> I would guess that a great majority of reactor operators who do not have degrees received there training in the U.S. Navy. If so they are very skilled, highly trained and when they transition to the civilian sector they have a great wealth of practical experience you can't get in college.
Personally I would put my trust in them any day. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 6:34 PM on 07.25.10 |
->> You can make $40K as a Night Manager at the QT....
And you don't even need a GED for that one!!
Nuff Said!! |
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Andrew Fielding, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 7:10 PM on 07.25.10 |
| ->> Ric, I'm with you, I disagree, I'm attempting to make it as a freelance photographer and I have yet to get a degree and find there are a few things that a degree would be helpful with (applying for non-freelance jobs for example). |
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Joseph Tames, Photographer, Assistant
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Palm Desert | CA | | Posted: 9:11 PM on 07.25.10 |
| ->> @ Yamil...that may be true but you will required to read "From Lucky to Smart: Leadership Lessons from QuikTrip" by Chester Cadieux. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 9:41 PM on 07.25.10 |
->> Joe, OK, you have a point, you need to know how to read.....
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Michael Fischer, Photographer
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Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 9:41 PM on 07.25.10 |
->> What a total waste of bandwidth.
This type of pablum simply serves to get eyeballs to the website. It's value to anyone looking at a career is totally useless.
@ Bruce: This is what I've been saying for years on here. More business courses. I know enough photographers who have the talent but are struggling because they lack business skills. |
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Daniel Putz, Photographer
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Owings Mills | MD | USA | Posted: 10:53 PM on 07.25.10 |
->> I believe this is, what they call on the internet, "a troll".
Happy Reading! |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 11:29 PM on 07.25.10 |
->> The key phrase is listed in the article.
"There's no high-paying job that doesn't require a high-level skill," says Lee. "You can learn it on the job, but you're going to have to learn it."
That pretty much says it all.
There has not been one graduate from a "photo school" that I have encountered that I did not have to retrain and was clueless as to how to do some of the most basic photographer functions.
A degree in any field does not make up for the fact that experience is always going to be more valuable, at least to me.
now having said that a degree and experience is the ideal. |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 2:40 AM on 07.26.10 |
| ->> Just wanted to add this would not apply to those fields like medicine. |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 2:52 AM on 07.26.10 |
->> Dave-
You're probably right... They're all automated now anyways. |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 8:18 AM on 07.26.10 |
| ->> Wow. Two instances of the word "pablum" in one thread. Evidence that somebody went to school. |
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