The next step

I decided that the best way for me to achieve my goals is to, after college, go into business for myself. University is not something that appeals to me much, and it is not necessary to have a degree to have a successful career as a wedding photographer. I think that it would probably be beneficial if I assisted a current wedding photographer but assisting jobs are not always easy to come by, and I think that it is not necessarily vital for my career. Instead of assisting I think that over the next year I will try and get some work experience with wedding photographers. Even if it is just shadowing them for a day at a wedding to see what a wedding is like from a photographers point of view. Through my course at college I will learn the basics that I need but I know that I will need to do a lot of research and work outside college in order for my skills and business knowledge to be good enough to be successful.