What's your dream?

This may come out sounding pretty cynical, but I don't think there's really anything that I could be happy doing every day for the rest of my working life.  Content, maybe.  But I'm already doing that.  I've discovered that I start dreading work if I go through enough days in a row without feeling like I've accomplished something.  But as long as I can look back on my day, most days, and feel like something's been accomplished I'm good.

Now, if you had asked me about this time last year I would have said to be a full time photographer, studio and all.  But I think that's due more to the job I had last year compared to the one I have now.  Once I get to work and get going I actually really like what I'm doing, as opposed to last year when I was pretty much just watching the clock. 

But, I think a mix of photography and web design / development would be a pretty good gig for me.  Both are really strong interests and different enough that when I'm sick of one I could hop over to the other and refresh.  Plus, I could work out of my house with either of 'em.

I can get bored pretty easily so my dream business would have to be flexible. I want a studio, but I want to do travel, but wait I want to do fine art too. I don't want to be tied to one genre only. I know it's hard to be the best at any one thing if you don't practice on that one thing all the time. But I'd be happy with "pretty damn good" in several things. After all once you're at the top there's only one way to go.

Not much of a business model is it?

Pulitzer prize?  Wow, cool.  What sort of meeting is this?

Ryan, I mentioned how my dream would probably change too.  I guess that I meant that for the same reasons you said, I do get bored easily too.  If I had posted this a year ago I wouldn't have said I wanted a studio.  Now I get it though.  I have started struggling with shooting outdoors because I don't have control, which is what I used to love about it.  But somewhere in the back of my mind the boudoir photography thing has always been there.  Years ago when I was dating my husband we went to a mall/shopping place and there was this boudoir photography studio there, I didn't think too much about it, just walked past, thought a mall was a weird locale for it, but that's it.  Later going back it was gone, I wondered why and started mulling over that kinda business in my head for a few years.  I have no idea what that place was called, who the photographer was, or anything about it, just the sign out front saying what it was and windows you couldn't see through... seemed shady and weird although the place looked nice enough.

I was reading the speech that Steve Jobs gave to a graduating class of some university (Standford?) and he talked about how one failure led to another success.  I also heard another businessman recently talking about how what he does today wasn't invented when he was in college, that perhaps we shouldn't decide what we want to be when we "grow up" until we are there, just persue things we love and be flexible. 

I guess the problem I am seeing with photographers and especially on this board (forgive me) is that they all are trying hard at perfecting their photography but ignoring business, or not persuing it.  How many dang times have we heard that successful photographers aren't necessarily the best photographers?  I don't want to be the best.  I just want happy clients and to provide for my family.  I want a good and decent life and I am okay working hard to get it, but preferably at something I like doing.

Things turned out well. My wife and I won one day to his workshop. http://blisswoodphotoworkshop.com/