Photography

Hi fellow Redditors

I am a professional photographer with an experience of 7 years in different field of photography (product, advertising, interiors, food etc.) So basically I was exploring my options and did whatever came in my way for money and experience.

Now I am going to be 30 next month and very serious about my career choices. I want to have a niche in my profession and want one type of photography to be specialised in.

Right now I’m working in a product firm and my job is good paying and very relaxed environment and have a deal with the employer that I can do freelance work also.

Recently I’ve applied in an architecture and interior firm where my job requires social media content creation and handling with the photography aspect. Please note that I’ve worked in a social media marketing agency for almost 4 years and have a very good knowledge of how it works but not actual on hand experience of it.

I’m really confused about whether I should take this new opportunity to grow in the particular industry and take up something that I’m not very much interested (social media) just to gain immense knowledge of the sector. Keeping in mind that I’m pretty sure that I would like to pursue interior and architecture photography for my whole life.

Joining this new organisation will result in

-6 days working week (earlier 5 days) -too much workload because of social media handling -prohibited to do any freelance

Any kind of suggestion will be really helpful. Tomorrow is judgement day.

Very long post so here’s a 🥔.