I don’t generate profits from pictures. And for a very long time, I felt like that meant it didn’t depend. Like if I wasn’t monetising it, I used to be simply losing time on an costly interest. But I don’t suppose…

I don’t generate profits from pictures.

And for a very long time, I felt like that meant it didn’t depend. Like if I wasn’t monetising it, I used to be simply losing time on an costly interest.

But I don’t suppose that anymore.

I’m a driller. That’s what pays the payments and supplies the approach to life my household and I would like.

But I’m additionally a photographer and a author.

Those issues don’t make me cash, not but, anyway, perhaps by no means, and I’m okay with that.

Because they hold me human offshore.

Photography provides me one thing to pour myself into in addition to the job. When somebody sees a picture I took of them and sends it to their household, meaning one thing. People have to be seen.

Writing is how I course of. Publicly, vulnerably, and it’s how I work by means of the tougher elements of this life.

The pictures I wish to do solely exists right here, on rigs, in locations most individuals don’t get to see.

Drilling retains me right here, so I get to do each. Pursue a ardour whereas doing my job. Not one or the opposite. Both on the identical time.

Could I attempt to flip pictures right into a profession?

Maybe. But the fact is, the offshore documentary work I wish to do would nonetheless require being away. It wouldn’t clear up the separation from household, and it in all probability wouldn’t substitute the earnings drilling supplies.

So for now, I hold it as a interest, and I don’t really feel responsible about that anymore.

I’m in the perfect place I may ask for. I get to pursue one thing I really like whereas incomes a residing doing one thing I’m good at.

Not everybody will get that setup.

Passion doesn’t have to interchange your job. It simply has to coexist with it.

And for me, that’s sufficient.