What do you do to support yourself financially?

[YinYang]

Until recently, I was a graphic designer, web designer and-and-and... advertising requires you to be a Jack of all trades, including photography every so often, but working in an office was like a prison sentence to me. So I impulsively quit my job recently and started contemplating a career change. A close friend is a doctor on a cruise liner, so I was lying on my bed and thinking about him, and then a thread on here gave me the idea to become a photographer. So I jumped on Google to see if cruise ships require photographers, and saw that they have large photography teams!

I put a photography portfolio together, updated my CV and applied, and voilà! I got it! Since then I have had paperwork coming out of my ears. Full medical, blood tests, urine tests, chest x-ray, ecg, 3 vaccinations, criminal clearance certificate, visas, passport, seaman's book, forms-forms-forms etc. etc. They're very strict, not even tatoos are allowed, let alone anything suspect in your blood or urine, which fortunately isn't an issue for me.

And I have been studying photography endlessly, since I'm a bit nervous. But since photography has always been a passion, it was just a pleasure to immerse myself in it. I can do all kinds of fancy tricks with my camera now that I never knew about before, like HDR photography, hyperfocal distance, infinity zoom, slow sync flash... If you ever see those pics where the landscape and the sky are both perfectly exposed, it's HDR photography! Magical stuff!

I was supposed to be off already, but my seaman's book is delayed, and without it I can't get off in any port.

All in all, this was the first time in my life that I relied completely on faith. The Creator fortunately sent me enough feathers popping up everywhere whenever I started worrying.