Pros
Working with kids is GREAT. end of pros
Kontras
school staff and particularly PTO often treat photographers as servants with no respect whatsoever. Sales personnel do not properly co-ordinate expectations from school with realities of mass photography. While my skills advanced and expanded into many areas of school photography, I did not get a raise in 5 years. Supposedly due to economy, but share holders got a dividend, which means that they were making a profit. Long hours when you work, but very seasonal and unpredictable about regular employment. Their attitude is that you can collect unemployment when you have down time, and that is good enough. Not an employee friendly company. Mistakes made by sales people must be corrected by photographers, as many tasks are delegated to photographers other than photography.
