I agree that photography isn't the most valuable certificate because, of course, you'd see the portfolio, I thought it might be an easy confidence builder for different courses, but probably better money spent on something else. His dream job is, I think, Commercial Photography for one of the car companies, which isn't going to happen unless he starts working for it and we move to an area where this happens.
On the business front we are debating creating an etsy store so we can start a business combining our creative abilities - did not consider that as a resume point. What do you mean by coherent narrative for the career, like goals? Thanks for the input immattdamon.