Did anyone here actually go to school for photography?

I know that Mike is going now, but he was pretty darned (I said "darned" because of Susie's delicate sensibility . . .) good before he went back to school.  Anyone else?

Ed

i went to the same school as mike, but the year before

 

I thought about going to school for photography. But after talking it over with my wife and some successful family members I think I might go to the local college for small business courses at night. To up the photo skills I can hit some workshops and private instruction with established photogs whose style I like. This way I can still work the day job and get the skills I need to make it successful business. I'm getting burned out at the day job, but it pays too much to just drop it and start over at this point. But to replace the day job I've got to have a good cash flow from the beginning.
Maybe I should take a juggling class.

I went to the local community college and took photography.  It was useless.  It was 90% darkroom work and I grew up with a darkroom in my house.  I've said this a billion times but here ya go again - Digital took away the stuff I hated about photography (red lights, chemicals), kept the stuff I liked and added even greater stuff (Photo editing software).

I should have taken business and marketing classes instead.  Business was my husband's major before he got a job as a corrispondant for a radio station and changed his major to communications.  And that's how we met, we both worked for the college newspaper and spent a lot of time in the darkroom together because we were the two there that knew anything about photography.  I could be disappointed that he didn't stick with business but then we wouldn't have met.

And Ed, I am not sensitive!    ...just more naive than I thought.

LOL, that's why I didn't expand on that part of the story either.

What's that song, "High School Confidential"

Corey, you are right.  I took those dumb tests in high school that tell you what career path you should take and mine always pointed to stuff I would hate doing, so go figure.
I am almost 30 (I am in my twenties for one more day) and I just figured out what I want to do when I grow up.

We'll have to find some black balloons   I'm right behind you with only about 4 weeks left of my 20s.