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fyodor posted:what the gently caress are those trash barrels in the back I've walked by and the barrels were full of yard waste, and there were shovels and whatnot in the back.
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leica posted:Would you be taking home more than you are now or could potentially make in your current field? Being an electrical engineer sounds like a much better career imo. Unsure. During billable hours, definitely, by an order of magnitude. I make my money sitting on my rear end and making a computer do my bidding right now though which is pretty nice. I am already making my hobby a business, my hobby was EE stuff about 15 years before I ever got into cars. Sanity...? Yeah there is none of that here. That being said I can't sell water to a man on fire, so I should probably stick to what I am already doing.
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That's huge too. If you can't market your service, your screwed
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Yeah, taking all their money is gonna require some salesmanship selling people poo poo they don't really need. I got out of the photography for a living because once my freelance gigs dried up I had no desire to run my own business and I couldn't market my way out of a paper bag either so I gracefully bowed out and moved on. I can't sell myself because I don't believe anyone gives a poo poo to begin with 
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leica posted:Yeah, taking all their money is gonna require some salesmanship selling people poo poo they don't really need. While I agree with you on the Kastein thing your photography problem is not quite the same. When my stock stopped selling well enough to pay for the equipment I bailed. Not for just that reason, but because the QUALITY of what was selling well had dropped so much. Every rear end in a top hat with a DSLR thinks they're a photographer now and very few buyers can tell the difference because they are also now amateurs ("web developers", etc). We're a whole world away from professional graphic artists buying high quality images these days like when one could make money in the business taking good photos for a good stock agency.
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Motronic posted:While I agree with you on the Kastein thing your photography problem is not quite the same. http://youarenotaphotographer.com/
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Motronic posted:While I agree with you on the Kastein thing your photography problem is not quite the same. I agree completely, the same thing happened to me, it's just that I wasn't willing to go into business for myself because I didn't have the will or energy to compete with all the other fools out there giving away their lovely work, why is anyone going to be willing to pay what I want for my work? I'm not going to try and sell myself over these people, I have no time for it. I worked with a sports stock agency on spec (owning my copyrights), and once my stock built up I was actually making pretty good money, but by the time I left they were giving new people $100 day rates and retaining rights to all their images because all these fuckwits will do anything to get creds and act like a pro photog for a weekend. I knew a doctor that would fly in to events on weekends to make $100 a day. I tried to explain to him that guys like him were ruining it for people that made a living out of it but he didn't want to hear it. It was too late at that point anyway. All the big stock agencies retain rights now unless you're a veteran that's grandfathered in. I'm sure some have been pushed out too. I also worked for a local portrait studio that had a monopoly on all the high schools in the area shooting all their sports stuff and events, I was one of a handful of contractors they had and made drat good money doing it. Then one day they made a deal with Canon, bought a bunch of digital bodies and lenses and just started hiring out the high school kids at minimum wage to do it, and the contractors were slowly phased out, I went from working every weekday to once a week within a month, saw the writing on the wall, bowed out and said gently caress photography altogether.
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Three pages. I could only make it three pages. That is not only bad, but super, super cringy. Especially the first page at the moment. leica posted:I agree completely, the same thing happened to me, it's just that I wasn't willing to go into business for myself because I didn't have the will or energy to compete with all the other fools out there giving away their lovely work, why is anyone going to be willing to pay what I want for my work? I'm not going to try and sell myself over these people, I have no time for it. That is all super lovely, and 110% believable based on what I saw. I was never doing this full time, so maybe I was part of the problem, but I retained my copyright (I still get surprise checks!) and only put up good work. Some of the very good work I put up was rejected. Remember when that used to happen? When agencies only accepted the best of the best because they were sending chromes out to customers? Your high school students with DSLRs is so typical........and the million moneys with a million typewriters thing just might work if there were still actual photo editors around to throw out 99.9 percent of it. But there'r aren't. People just generally don't know or expect good photography anymore. Anyone with a phone can do it, right? Motronic fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Ha, I was done around 2009 (did it for about three years), had a decent stock built up and was still getting published and getting checks for a few years after. That poo poo dried up quite awhile ago though The spec stock stuff I did was part time, contracting for the local studio was my bread and butter so when that went south I was done. Sold all my poo poo, now I'm down to just one 20D, a 10-22 and a 50mm haha. But yeah, anyone can be a "pro" these days and I'm not trying to compete with them offering the lowest price for the shittiest images. Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Aug 30, 2015 |
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I've considered producing and selling stock but strayed away from it because I figured it just wasn't worth the time. Weddings are still a good source of income for the amount of time required. I did add a new body this year (70D) which has been a ton of fun to play around with. Incredible video capability.
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Weddings are a great way to make money if you're good at it and can deal with the drama. It took assisting a handful of weddings to realize it wasn't for me. The photographers I knew that are good at it make a killing.
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leica posted:and can deal with the drama This. It's this. No amount of money can make up for it. And it doesn't stop for MONTHS after each wedding, no matter what you try.
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kinda gold? http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cto/5184378171.html *edit: fixed ad link EL Bombastico fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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you linked to the wrong ad. also you were posting poo poo on the internet when you should have been out buying that car.
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That's probably a scam.
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Motronic posted:Three pages. I could only make it three pages. Screw you bad trip baby owns. Owns your next acid drop.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:That's probably a scam. I seem to remember that engine having some sort of exhaust air injector things that get clogged causing failed emissions and error codes which requires a head teardown to repair. Maybe it just needs to go live somewhere without emissions testing?
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EL Bombastico posted:kinda gold? http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/cto/5184378171.html Holy poo poo. Buy it and if it fails emission flip it to a goon out of CA for 3k.
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I guess it's the best PT Cruiser ? https://knoxville.craigslist.org/cto/5185160699.html 
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VideoTapir posted:WTF is that thing behind it? I figured it was an S10 with a front end swap, so i put "S10 front end swap" into google image search to confirm, and now i need a forget-me-now. I don't know how i'm going to sleep tonight.
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VideoTapir posted:WTF is that thing behind it? Looks like an early 90s C1500 with some dumbfuck front clip to make it look like a mid 50s Chevy.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Looks like an early 90s C1500 with some dumbfuck front clip to make it look like a mid 50s Chevy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgs9OhjAE2g
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14 INCH DICK posted:It's a barn PCOS Bill posted:Those are trees Elmnt80 posted:You mean that sign that says riken? You guys are the best guys.
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blk posted:Was surprised to see this today: They're coveted because almost every single hatchback has been tarted up with the cheapest garbage at this point and having a stock one that still rolls is impressive.
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the gently caress  
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I dunno, it seems p. cool. Its not covered in chrome or a tacky as poo poo "rat rod". I mean, it has a modernish mopar engine in it, but I'd honestly rather have it than quite a few modernish ford truck engines. I'm assuming the $20 is meant to be 20,000 which is way too much, but for 10k +-2k? gently caress yeah, I'd consider it.
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That elipsis in the tacky nose art makes it seem more like a disappointed sigh. "Yeah... it's got a hemi.. sorry.." 
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https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5209537052.htmlquote:1993 Mazda MX3 GS - $2000 (Kent) I could totally see 2000 dollars being a reasonable price for a... quote:condition: Salvage/Fair I was gonna bold sections but holy poo poo. Then there's the photos which vary from "okay, a little ricey" to "need 2000 dollars for meth."               
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But the person who buys it for 2000 dollars can part it out. Why should I not get that money?
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The other stuff is just ricey. This, this is a failure to understand how... well, anything works. For gently caress's sake, there are speaker grilles just in front of where he hacked near-irreplaceable plastics... e: I assume the plastics are rare-ish. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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VideoTapir posted:But the person who buys it for 2000 dollars can part it out. Why should I not get that money? If you buy it for $2k and try to part it out, I doubt you'll make money or even break even. You'll probably lose money. Who knows what's still good on the car and what it's worth.
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There is a good chance if you stroll down 240th right there with $2k in your pocket you will not make it home.
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