CNet wrote an article: 14 things to do if you are laid off from a tech job. What should people do? Become professional photographers! I am not making this up!

12. Take pictures

Put your $1,500 dSLR to use by selling stock-art pictures of household objects to Fotolia, ShutterStock, iStockphoto, StockXpert, etc. "It's cheap for people to buy images compared to the traditional stock (photo) market, but it can be lucrative over time because images sell over and over. I've made money without trying too hard. But quality standards are going up, so you can't just upload any old crap. Brush up on your model releases."

How low can you go?

  1. It's cheap: "Put your $1,500 dSLR..." only $1500 to become a professional photographer1.
  2. You don't really need to know what you are doing but: "quality standards are going up".
  3. It's easy: "I've made money without trying too hard."
  4. You work from your home: "selling stock-art pictures of household objects".
  5. Don't forget the model releases for your household objects.

And you thought that now there is a glut of photographers. By the end of the recession, there will be no high tech job left and everybody will have become a photographer.

 

1 too bad, I didn't know and would have not bought all my lenses, flashes, bags, memory cards, grey cards, insurance... ↑

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