The toughest decision of my life

What is change? Anything that is disturbed from the status quo is a change. Even buying a new phone is a change. For e.g., you have always used an Android, now you have bought a new iPhone. That is a change. Though you are excited about owning an iPhone, you are trying hard to understand the features of the phone and trying to adapt to it. This decision of buying an iPhone was an easy one. You wanted an iPhone and you bought it. (Though you saved enough for it to buy!)

Not every decision in life is as easy as it may sound. One of the toughest decisions I faced in my life recently is whether to continue with my current job or quit the job and start being a professional photographer. I have just started to learn photography, just a year or so ago. But the kind of satisfaction and happiness I get out of photography can never be matched with the job I am doing. 

I work in a IT company, as everyone else. It pays me well. It’s been 3 years I started working. In the initial period, I really liked what I was doing. After a point, I realised IT is not something I can do my entire life. I was really thinking should I quit and take up photography as business. 

Photography has now become very competitive with the widespread use of Digital camera. But I know I will love being a photographer. The other side of the coin is, I will not be able to earn as much in photography right now. Once I am an established photographer, then I can earn. So, I sat and thought about my options. 

It wasn’t an easy one to make. People tend to look at short term while deciding on something. It is equally important to look at long term. Japanese believe in long term rather than short. But Indians have the tendency to look at the short term gains. If it isn’t good enough, we don’t do it. After a long thought and discussing with few other friends and some photographers, I decided I will work for few months and then quit the job. 

Now, I have quit my job and started my photography career. This is a big change in my life. Though I am not earning a lot now, I am learning photography and business. I understand what people expect out of a photographer. I would never be able to do a full time photography that is giving me lot of pleasure if I had stayed in the nine to five job. Leaving my job and taking photography full time was the toughest, yet best decision I have ever made.

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