Career day

Today was career day at the middle school. I was pretty nervous about the whole deal. I have to speak for 20 minutes to six classes of sixth graders. The speaking for 20 minutes was easy. The hard part was to get the kids to listen and be somewhat entertained. But, I think I did pretty good. I will change it a bit for next year, if I get the opportunity again.

This year, I did a little history. I compared different areas of photography; news, commercial, fashion, paparazzi, portrait and fine art. I put up the type of education needed, estimates of annual salaries (from Monster.com salary calculator). I also showed my images and the images that the students took a few weeks ago. ((NOTE: I will not be able to show you those images, sorry.)) I also talked about copyright with the example being copying songs from a friends CD without paying for them. That was interesting.

Anyway, it was a good time. I can now understand why teachers go do what they do everyday.