I'm Retiring From Corporate America, Not From Being Creative: My Plan to Build a One-Man Photography and Filmmaking Business
By Robert C. Gallagher | Photography by Gallagher There comes a point in your life when you start looking at retirement a little differently. For some people, retirement means golf, fishing, traveling, or sitting on the back porch watching the world go by. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with any of that. For me? I still want to work. I just want to work on my own terms. After decades of commercial photography, filmmaking, sound recording, and working in the corporate world, I've decided that when I retire from my six-figure corporate career, I'm going to do something that might sound a little crazy. I'm going back into business for myself. Not to build a big company. Not to hire a bunch of employees. And certainly not to recreate the corporate job I just retired from. I'm building a small, boutique commercial photography and filmmaking studio serving local businesses within roughly 100 miles of Sacramento, California. And I'm going to do just about every...
