New deal

Every hour that I spend working at my day job is an hour invested in my photography. Time spent at my day job is not to be seen as time that I could have spent photographing; instead, it is to be seen as an investment: If I didn’t have a day job, I wouldn’t have the money to (slowly) pay off the credit card that I use to buy the camera and the lenses and the laptop and the monitor and the printer and the paper and the ink and the software and the magazines and the books and the sundry items necessary to keep the photography going, and then the whole operation, such as it is, would shut down. My day job, therefore, is to be seen as a gift, not an annoyance. As such, it is not to be wasted. That is, each hour I’m spending at my day job is to be spent working, not playing solitaire or surfing the Web or otherwise letting this gift slip away.

This increased productivity will have one primary benefit: It will allow me to spend more time photographing. Secondary benefits: Who needs them?