I'm a college student with BIG dreams! I want to be a famous portrait artist known throughout the world. I idolize Arnold Newman. I think he is the best portrait photographer that ever lived! Of course I look up to other photographers like Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn, Sebastiao Salgado, and Lewis Hine. I could keep making my list, but I'm afraid you'll get bored.
As an up and coming photographer I find the competitiveness about the photographic world a little scary. It seems the only way to become successful is to assist a professional photographer. I plan on assisting once I am out of school. Right now I have a job, school, and I coach a youth soccer team (which I'm afraid I'll have to give up in order to achieve my goal).
Soccer was a HUGE part of my life when I was younger. I've been playing it since I was 5 years old. After I graduated from Lyon College I played semi professional in San Diego. During that season I found the politics of soccer wasn't going to be worth $25,000 a year.
After that season I started thinking about my life. Why am I going to kiss up to a soccer coach that doesn't even know I exist? It was like he already had his team picked. I got sick of soccer politics and realized by the time I made it pro (if I ever did) the league might not be going on. The league was known to fail in the past.
I graduated with an English Degree (which I had no idea what to do with because there were no job openings), and applied to Pololu Robotics. I cried after the interview. I didn't know if I did good enough, and the people there made me feel kind of stupid. I was surprised they wanted to hire me. I almost said no, but I'm glad I work there. I am currently their product photographer, and I handle some of their accounting stuff. Recently I was told I wouldn't be doing so much accounting, but I will be doing more photography. I'm happy with that. I look up to my boss Jan the most. He is really smart and funny. I want to be just like him, but I'm a girl obviously!
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