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First,  I agree She shouldn’t be charging, but that’s beside the point.

The “following” eh I don’t see it.  It’s just not there.  I have more action on my personal page.  The likes are mostly liking ladder likes from other togs that like to pretend they make some sort of a living with their photography and dont even follow.  All they have is a hobby, that involves taking money from people who love their families.  Unless she’s doing 2 or more sessions every day and at least a wedding a month… She most likely isn’t even giving herself minimum wage.  That is unless she like so many others and isn’t legal, doesn’t pay taxes, and isn’t insured like so many others.  She falls into the most common category of ho hum, average novice tog with a Facebook and a price list.  Everything seems legit and successful on the surface, but it’s just a facade that they created for themselves.  It must be fun, or attractive somehow to pretend so hard that you’re making money and running a business taking pictures of cute kids.  I don’t understand it.  I try to understand it, but it makes no sense to me how much effort and money they pour into it, and get so very little in return for it.  Wouldn’t it be better to have WAY less expenses and just shoot for yourself Without all that “networking” (having a tog on the other side of the country or another country, that you never even page visit, is NOT networking) marketing, servicing, pressure etc? To make it appear to your clients you’ve got it going on?  I feel like with so many out there faking it till they make it (or most likely give up ) I might be missing out on something.  Am I?  Or are they all missing out?  I’m convinced its the latter.