The market is pretty saturated here as well… I think you just need to push the aspects of yourself that are different to what others are offering.

If you’re qualified as an architect, you can always go back to doing that in the future, no?

It’s the same here – I had just qualified as a secondary teacher, had worked 2 years in a job @ a really well respected school – good prospects of rising up the ladder… and I thought to myself “I don’t want to get to 40 and regret never having a go at this”.

You can always go back to the career you trained in if it doesn’t work out – so why not give it a go!! If you can make it work in this economic climate, it bodes well for your future.

Yet another success story the so closely parallels where I’m at. We see many of these kinds of stories on DWF, and every one of them has me itching to make the jump and change professions.

Anyone know what the success rate of such attempts is in the central US?

I’ve got the glass, I’ve got the production hardware and software, I’ve got the know how, I’ve got the experience, and people say I’ve got the skills, but at 24, I’m still in the beginning stages of being an architect. Don’t believe what you see in the movies- architects aren’t usually paid that much.

At this point with a new wife who’s not yet employed, I don’t think I can take the leap, but later this year…

I don’t know. Does anyone know if the St. Louis wedding photography market is close to saturation, or in times like these can a one-man (maybe with an assistant) show undercutting the big services with similar (and often better quality) product make it?