Experience
An experiment that started in 2004 unfolded into a career. If you are starting out or find yourself struggling with your work. I can assure you most of our industry is about image and most of us in the creative and production side do struggle. Keep at it would be my advice.
After Graduating from university in 2005, I started work with a whole host of tools, mostly with photography but I had other requirements that including website design and management, eventually video creation and video editing and until recently AI content creation.
Work has led me to a partnership with Dark Reach Communications LLC is the USA, together. I work though their office as a freelance, and I am considered self-employed due to being an ocean apart.
My photography duties keep me mostly in Europe, Budapest - Hungry, Prague - Czech Republic on occasion Spain and Portugal. I try to get one trip away to Las Vegas where I also attend the AVN Expo.
Video production has become more off a demand, something I never considered, but I never consider photography, Video has become much more enjoyable to work on now with current video editing tools.
It is not all work all, I am also an airsoft player, I love GTA V. I have working in the electronics industry, and I also saw service military several times in the past, I getting to old for that, at least when I play airsoft I can come home to my own bed.