Top 5 Worst Bahamian Professions everyone seems to have

There is this huge trend of people trying to make money through jobs that look "cool", or seem generally easy and fun to do. Majority of young Bahamians have adopted these job titles trying to look for an easy buck. Sadly they couldn't have been more wrong.

"Dude buying an expensive camera has to be easier than this"

1. Photographer

Photography seems like a glamorous and easy job, you take pictures of beautiful women all day right? And you get paid for it! whats better than that? Just stop right there, not all photographers take pictures of models and the ones that do are very few. They have worked years at networking, getting to know the business, and actually getting the attention of clients willing to pay for their services, and selling their artwork at a gallery which is a feat to get into itself. Majority of photographers take contemporary pictures, scenery, everyday people, and abstract. Even after years of schooling and building a portfolio to present to a firm who would hire you. Most photographers don't make much money, if hardly any. It is a very competitive, highly criticized field. A lot of Bahamians assume just buying a fancy camera, asking a few girls to take pictures of,  and adding a water mark on their pictures makes them a photographer. If they met a real photographer they would most likely get punched in the face, and have their picture taken afterwards. This then leads into the next profession everyone seems to want and think they have.

 

 

"WTF! where are the half naked women? I didn't sign up for this."

 

 

2. Model

This is the bane of my existence, every girl who have ever had their picture taken seems to believe that they are in fact a model. Although they have never seen a single dime of money for it nor have any credentials to show. Never has been featured a "model" outside of Facebook. "Photographers" ask a decent looking woman to have their pictures taken, and are told they can be models. What happens is they actually believe it, and the photographers play along so they can just take some pictures to give the illusion that they are actual photographers. What we soon have is a bunch of women who claim to be models and thus feel superior to people who aren't models. As if modeling has the per-requisites to actually have brains or any other skills. Then they refuse to do any other work because they claim to be models taking pictures in their bathrooms with their blackberry's making a duck face in the mirror. BOOM! time to go duck hunting.

"This will look fabulous on my resume'"

3. DJs

Being a DJ sounds like the easiest most fun thing in the world, you attend parties and you just play music all night. Then possibly get a few chicks to leave with you after sounds like the life doesn't it? Wrong being a DJ is one of the hardest things to do these days. The industry is so saturated with Virtual DJ posers and people who have no sense of rhythm and tone it makes the people who actually hone their craft hard to notice. Seems like in every teenage Bahamian's life there was a DJ phase where they would just mix songs together and play sounds effects over the songs, the proceed to share them on Facebook. When the actual DJs do the opposite, they go out searching foe venues to play at most of the time for free at first, get more known then actually OFFER their services to people planning parties, Bahamians just assume that they will just come looking for you while you chill in your room abusing virtual DJ.

"This is so easy why aren't more people DJs!"

4. Phone Card Re-saleSelling phone cards isn't as big as it was before, literally there was 4 or 5 people on every corner selling cards until they lowered the commission you would make on each sale. Then the unthinkable happened EZ-topup. This god awful system has enabled anyone with a cell phone to sell minutes. So you have people walking around in random shops, clubs, and hangout areas trying to sell you minutes. Although its fine to have it as a side venture but to make it a main job is downright awful. Not only your returns for the effort you put towards it not worth it, you start to lose money after a while if you don't sell enough. Yet everyone seems to be jumping onboard because it seems too good to be true, and it is.

"If only there were Nokia death matches"

 

5. Event Planner

Every weekend you hear about some party from some entertainment group with some razzle frazzle name like "WeArePromisingYouWillGetLaidIfYouPay10Bucks" or something along those lines. Event planning isn't just throwing parties at different locations, you would just be called a great party thrower. Event planing has a very unique art to it only a handful of people can really pull it off. Getting the right caterer, designing the venue, making sure there are enough seats, right amount of activities, marketing, making sure you deliver what the client wants specifically, and the list goes on and on. Seems like every Bahamian wants to be a huge mogul by throwing parties with all sorts of gimmicks like a certain attire you must wear, or if its some time of the year, and sure enough every year the same thing happens and we all fall victim to the wet n mads.

"What a wonderful way to celebrate a great achievement in history, NUDITY"