Advertising & product photographer, specializing in cosmetics/skincare as well as interiors/furniture.

The creative freelance life can be rough. There's never a moment you exist that couldn't be spent doing SOMETHING work-related (emails, retouching, promotion, testing, etc.), you don't get any PTO or benefits, someone is always trying to steal your work, you don't get any taxes withheld from your pay, zero job security whatsoever, you are one of the first budgets cut when the economy goes to shit, and before COVID you simply have to work when you're sick because there's too much money riding a production with strict scheduling for you to just call in.