I worked in the aerospace industry. I was a quality control manager and made a good wage. But I never stopped there. I also photographed weddings on the weekends. Some weekends I done more than one wedding. I remember making more some weekends than I did working all week.. Guys I knew used to say I was rich because I bought a new car every two years. I told them to get off their butt and get a part time job. They just could pull them self up by their own bootstraps.. Nobody gave me a dime. If you just go home and flop in your chair in front of the boob tube so be it. Now having saying that I do feel for the folk that never had a chance in life. But some just want everything giving to them. This country is rich enough to help the really needy. But some are just plan lazy. They say why work when the gov will hand me a free check. I do think the min wage should be a lot higher. When the welfare check is higher than the min wage something is wrong. And part time jobs should not be held to the min wage.

I quite agree, but I don't think the min wage should be a LOT higher. It was never intended to be a proper wage for growing families, but rather a defense against unscrupulous employers who would exploit the unskilled, the young, etc. A much higher min wage would breed a whole host of problems, like McDonald's replacing min wage people with kiosks. Oh wait, that's already happening. The minimum wage should be at a level where low-wage workers want to move on to better-paying jobs. It's probably too low now, but raising it to $15 would be as nightmarish as having Bernie Sanders for president.

One of the more interesting lists to consider.

Selfies, weird borders, and crappy sunset shots. We’ve all rolled our eyes at these clichés, but what’s worse is that we’ve all been guilty of them at some time or another. (from PictureCorrect)

25 PHOTOGRAPHY CLICHES TO AVOID (OR ELSE)

Taking selfies. Please stop?

Bokeh, bokeh, and more bokeh. Bokeh is great—in small doses.

Signing your photos. In Kai’s words: “Who do you think you are? Picasso?”

Adding cheesy filters. Just… no.

Putting text on your photos. A good picture already paints a thousand words.

Taking the same-old sunset photos. “Red sky, red sky, red sky, red sky, red sky…”

Using obnoxious watermarks. It’s good to protect your work, but if no one can see your photo behind your large opaque branding, then what’s the point of posting it online?

Adding borders. Don’t be a noob.

Light painting names. Just forget it—the writing would look juvenile anyway.

Creating B&W photos with selective colors. Good for poignant tales. Not so good for random flowers.

Making B&W artistic nudes. A nude is a nude no matter the color space, people.

Blurring waterfalls. If shot incorrectly, blurred waterfalls look like “a load of old ladies’ hairs.”

Capturing boring landscape panoramas. 90 percent of landscape panoramas are probably just green grass at the bottom and blue sky at the top.

Taking lots of cloud photos. Take photos of cool cloud formations, sure—but don’t make clouds and sunsets your entire portfolio!

Inserting fake sun lens flare. Get your own sun flare!

Overdoing HDR. HDR is best done tastefully or not at all.

Changing better-suited color photos to B&W. Just… why?

Using the zoom burst technique. Okay, you can try it ONCE—but never again.

Creating dutch angle shots. You’ll have to work hard to set your dutch angle shots apart.

Making “postcard” images of tourist attractions. You know those touristy shots that you’ve seen a million times? We don’t need another one floating around out there. Try something new!

Photographing people who are less fortunate than you. Everyone photographs homeless people. Make your images unique or don’t make them at all.

Taking “I’m a Photographer” selfies. Don’t you do it!

Every. Single. Stock. Photo. Ever. Made. Perhaps not every stock photo, but certainly most!

Devising optical illusions. You might think you’re clever, but…

Photographing people with trollies. Apparently, Kai does this far too often.