Is it weird that I have zero interest in making a career out of my photography? I really love taking photos and I can't look at anything without imagining how it would photograph.

I love the post-processing of my images and enjoy all the trial and error (sometimes great things turn up, sometimes not).  I just love it for the art of it and am truly interested in constantly improving.

If I could make money on my images that would be great of course.  But I can't even stand the thought of taking photos for someone else like a real photographer would.  Weddings?  UGH, shoot me now.  Product photography?  Crap, I already do that at work and MAN is it ever boooooring.

As far as what I do right now, the design world can be very frustrating. My job, although technically "creative" is actually more about just producing someone else's vision as quickly and accurately as possible. And that process is NOT creative, especially when dealing with someone's "design sense", often a product of retail flyers and Microsoft Office templates.

I'm not freelance, so I pretty much have to conform to the desires of the company. Sometimes I come up with something I think is really cool and they eliminate all the cool elements and basically I end up making something that looks like a freaking store flyer. Non-design people really like to fill up ALL the white space.

Don't get me wrong, I have a pretty good job and I'm lucky to have it and all that, but as a daydreaming, head in the clouds creative person who just wants to MAKE things and EXPRESS things,  I also feel like I'm in a cage.