Job Hunting

When I got out to Albuquerque, it felt like I was getting a clean start and wanted to try earning a living in as a photographer. I saw several opportunities but each one was lacking in one way or another. One job was described as an "action photographer" and would entail driving across the Southwest to photograph different events covering gymnastics, karate, motocross... Another was an assistant photographer at a local portrait studio. She looked at my portfolio and my resume for quite a while. She said that she would have loved to hire me but the wage she could offer would have been an insult because I was over qualified for the position. Then there was a local jewelry distributer who liked my work, offered a decent starting wage, but didn't offer any benefits. That was a deal breaker because in the state of New Mexico I can't get my own health insurance policy because I have diabetes.