So I have been doing a good amount of thinking recently, (oh shit right?), and I have been questioning my "career choice". I put that in quotes for a few reasons. First I don't consider something that is fun a career, maybe that's because when I hear the word career I think of somebody in a nine to five for 30 years and then retiring so they can finally start their life (my definition of career has broadened a bit but not much). Second because I haven't finished school yet, and I'm not working in the field so I don't feel like it can be called a career yet. Like I said I have been thinking a great deal lately that I chose to go to school for the wrong thing, and for a while now I have been feeling down about having wasted my time working toward a degree I may not even use. Then I saw this video by a Youtube channel named Vlogbrothers. Basically they said that career is kind of a loaded word, that it implies that we only get one choice and when we make it we are stuck with it. This all sounds pretty basic now but before I watched this video thats almost exactly how I felt. Not so much that I am stuck with the choice I made but that I put myself in a position where to change now would delay my future. Then I started to think about things I have heard others say. A very successful photographer here in Houston by the name freeman said, "evolve" I'm paraphrasing, he didn't just come up to me and say one word, but in a nut shell that was the message. He was talking about photography at the time but the concept applies to life in general. Life, your career, your hobbies, they all evolve over time. Sure some lucky ones figure out what they want to do early on and become vey successful at it. That doesn't mean the rest of us can’t be successful. So I may not become a photographer, or I may only be a photographer for a little while, I may write, I may open a cafe. Who knows? Nobody. We cant know for certain what we will end up doing and a lot of us won’t end up doing just one thing. Currently I am leaning toward writing, even considering going to get my masters in english after I finish up my BFA. So I wont throw my hands up and walk away from photography, I will finish.
Evolve! Not just in your career but in life.
James C. Romo
