It turns out Hikaru was right; something I will refrain from telling him for as long as possible.
While I occasionally take a beautiful photograph, I generally suck. I will continue snapping shots while I'm out and feel inspired but it will be more of a hobby and less a practice run for a career change. For now I seem to still belong in front of the camera.
Perhaps I will pen my memoirs or turn some real situations I have seen and been in over the years into a novel.