A Photographer...... with a 9-5

I'm Czar; a 22 year old photographer....... with a "9-5" to fund my craft and all my other adult needs. I'm what you call a "starving artist". I didn't have enough time on my hands, after I graduated high school to create content like I wanted to. There were places I wanted to shoot in but didn't have the time. Looks to create but no people to create with because I was too busy juggling 2 retail jobs and 3-4 classes at SMC.

In 2016, I dropped out of college, quit one job to work my first 9-5 only to not be properly fired or paid right in the end, I lost the boy I thought I loved and even lost a handful of close friends all before I turned 21. I was determined to put more into my life and to give myself more. Most important I recognized things about myself and I had to change them.

First off, I hated school. I was leaving class early bc I was bored, ditching class to smoke. Sometimes, I would literally force myself to stay in class but each class I kept leaving with nothing. I'm paying to learn what I've already been taught, paying for a professor who was always late and wanted her assignments written on wide ruled paper, paying for a professor who dropped me from my most important class for having the stomach flu and last but not least; I paid for a professor to tell me my work wasn't good enough instead of telling me what I could do to improve myself. Despite social norms and doing what I thought was best for moms, for once I put myself first. I said and I kid you not; "Fuck, SMC. I'm not going back to that place." 

Second off, I never wanted to sit behind a desk or in a cubicle for the rest of my life. Just when I thought I wouldn't be able to get anything better than boring Data Entry, my moms was blessed with a COO position with a transportation company and along with the CEO they hired me as their Executive Assistant. I work for a limousine service but with Teslas and Mercedes Benz S550s. I'm always working but having my mother as my boss has connected me to resources like car service, a printer for my photos, and a CEO who puts me on game with my own business while he and my mother run a 24 hour company. 

Having a 9-5, pursuing my dreams as a "Non-Traditional Gallery Owner", truly walking by faith and not by site, surrounding myself with well-rounded people, who also want to contribute or see me succeed, has truly kept me driven and happy. Yes, it becomes stressful at times but I always make it work, because this right here is my purpose and my sole purpose.  

Anything that is in store for you, will always be in store for you. What's for you will always be yours.