Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Why don't the displaced photographers form their own association and go > after the business of their former employer? > > In other service professions that is what happens. > > Lawyers do this when separated from their law firm as do CPAs, architects, > engineers and others. > PS - most law firms or architects offices aren't taken over by multi-million dollar backed businesses who have already bought up 2/3 of their competitors... As a CPA, imagine trying to get business where there or 6 or 20 of you banded together trying to compete against two other businesses who now control the employment or skills of say 70% and growing of the rest of the CPA's in the country, having bought up all those other firms/offices. (it's not an exact analogy, because a photographer is used for both his present skills, but more immediately, his worth is in fact the inventory of his images the agency holds). tim a - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html