I’m not sure how well the photography field is fairing, but I work in the health field (not as a nurse but closely with nurses) so I can give you a bit of an insight on that. In a hospital setting, nursing can be pretty stressful work, but you also encounter very interesting cases on a daily basis, you learn a lot, and if you want to further your education you have a lot of different routes to choose from. It can also pay very well. The downside is that there are many people going into the nursing field and the waitlist can be long (we are talking about years!) The upside of going this route is that you could also take sign language courses too and that could benefit you on the job. So as a benefit, you could somehow intermingle both interests in a sense.