Lately, work has got a bit stressful. Peter is a perfectionist in his own way and very demanding too. He’s a great friend and will come to your help whenever you ask. But working for him is a different story. I knew that side of him before I came to work for him. The first year however was fine, he gave me a big project and I worked on it one day a week until I finished it. This year, he has become more demanding and wouldn’t take no for an answer for anything he asks for. I kind of understand his reasoning and how he wants things to be just perfect in the area that he deems important. But my personality is the opposite. I don’t like to fuss about the details, I don’t care whether a picture screen has a red border or not. I don’t mind seeing the web browser’s status bar or top frame when it goes to full screen mode. I tried to disable them but the status bar will not go away. The web cam picture will sometimes fill the frame, sometimes not. And it just has to leave some space on the right yesterday when Peter came up to look at it. He went into a frustrating tone of voice and started being annoyed and unkind.
I know this is only temporary and I’m only working part time, 8 hours a week for him. And I can leave in a year and never look back. I just have to be patient with him and put up with his semi-abusive attitude. This web cam project is not something I like to do or feel comfortable handling in the way he demands. It almost sounds like I need to write my own code to do exactly what he wants. I am not a programmer for the camera or the browser. An area I never got into. So I always feel inadequate and frustrating when I ran into the limitations of the software or the browser.
I understand exactly what Trey was saying when he told us in the webinar that he would never go on sponsored photo shoots or be hired as a photographer. He wants to pay for his own tirps and make his own decisions on what to shoot and how to edit it. Be your own boss doing what you love to do. That is the ultimate freedom and happiness.