Could you help me find myself and my vocation?

by @WillsRecovery in Preston, England, United Kingdom

Could you help me find myself and my vocation?

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I need to purchase photography equipment to further my academic studies and to begin a business and get out of the benefits lifestyle

by @WillsRecovery in Preston, England, United Kingdom

Hey! I was a disadvantaged and abused child, my home and upbringing were hell and weren't a good environment for a developing mind. 

I couldn't fit in in mainstream schools and was seen as too much of a distraction to the rest of my classmates, while still in mainstream school i'd be sat in the storeroom at the back of the class so i could get help from the support teacher without distracting the rest of the class, i eventually got sent to special schools where my autism was diagnosed and life began to make sense a little at that time.

I left the horror home i was in and made myself homeless at 16 until 18 so went off the rails spiralled into drug and alcohol addictions and the spiral of homelessness and petty crimes. I didn't see any end in sight to my tribulations so didn't put in the work i needed to at that time fix myself and my situations, 14 years later i'm now 30 years old, the isolated 18 years of my developing life have left me still as isolated and socially anxious, this has always been the barrier why i couldn't maintain employment even if it was something my physical disabilities didn't hinder my mental ones would.

That has always left me hating myself as i'm not the benefits sort of person i want to be earning my own way in life and paving the way to home ownership, now life is on the right course its all i ever dream about having the stability of home ownership when my developing life was so unstable.

The only way to home ownership is with hard work, but the only way to do hard work is to be employed and the only way i can be employed with my physical and mental barriers is to be my own boss.

I'm starting university in September studying a bachelors degree with honours in photography as that is the career i know i will excel in and gaining the extra knowledge and skills from that qualification will be valuable, however before then i need to build up a portfolio of photographs i have taken and my phone camera is no where near sufficient enough for that task, this causes me spiralling worries that i'm going to hit issues when studying if i don't source the equipment i'm going to need.

So i want to get that equipment now and begin practice with it all until i can begin earning from it, be it going to local takeaways offering them cheap photos for their google profile etc or getting some Easter backdrops getting my c.r.b clearance and offering Easter family photo shoots etc, i just need the equipment to begin putting all my plans into reality.


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