Pros
You get to have fun playing with kids and creating memories that people will cherish for a lifetime. You can have flexible hours.
Cons
Kids can be horrible. Parents can be worse. The management is set up in a way that is not supportive of growth or learning. Often the staff is under-trained and alone. Many times I would find myself alone in the studio trying to manage a studio but not having training for that level of work. Technology doesn't just often break down, it constantly breaks down and often they take forever to fix it. Customers can be unreasonable and management will yell at you if you are not selling enough product, even though they are offering "affordable" photography. Most managers strive for a $90 sales average, yet they offer $20 packages and coupons that make photos $4 a sheet. Often the photographers and sales associates get blamed even though they sell a mass amount of product and have high customer satisfaction.
