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My job has been going really good. All our locations have instagrams except us which makes no sense. I knew my boss would be negative on the thought of us doing one but I decided to push it anyways. I don't like social media but I like to make videos and what we do is really interesting it seems like a no brainer. So I recorded some videos of us hiking off trail in some crazy areas for work we were doing and he liked the look so much I got him to commit to shooting photos while I do some photos along with filming.
I've loved video editing since before youtube and used to use skateperception so much. I just mentioned the video thing two days ago, then today I was working at another location and our regional manager saw my Canon film camera. I knew he was a photographer so we talked a little photo stuff, then later I was coming out of the restroom and saw some video equipment. I found out it was the regional manager's stuff that I had just talked to and told him how much I love editing, and how it was something I wanted to make a career out of for a long time, the stuff I was working on at the moment and it just started clicking. He had just gotten an email earlier in the day about trying to do all our video stuff in house instead of hiring a crew and he was in the process of trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together. I really love editing and have always been bummed that I haven't gotten to use that interest in an professional way. Video editing is one of the few really tedious tasks that I can do for hours and it just feels good to have people have some confidence in you.
Been a hot minutes since you posted about the new job and you come through with a solid update. Glad your in a good place work wise @50mm!
Thanks man! Yeah I wanted to talk to everyone like before about it but I know everyones been busy and I get back late so I thought I would share. I guess I'll just throw out some stuff that's going on.
-At the interview they said they wanted me to live on site, and made the house sound like a shack. No AC, leaking windows, needs work that wouldn't come for about a year. Then I let you guys know it's actually a really badass house, its just that it needed some slight work that was gonna have to wait a while. They said it was kind of a weird situation because the guy who started our whole non-profit started out of that very house, which he built with his bare hands, and so he has emotional attachment to keeping it as is. About a month after I started the guy had a change of heart, he's getting up there in the years and wants it to be in good condition so they just finished putting a shit load of money into renovating the house, like A LOT of money. New roof, AC, fixed the windows, walls, carpet, I move in next week. I know I am getting a bit of hate from the other people because the new guy is getting the new nice house, but the fact is I didn't expect them to do any work on it beside fixing a leaky window when I said I would do it, and they never suggested it would get renovated, and at least 4 others had been offered the place before and declined. I took a pay cut from my old job, agreed to move into what I thought was a dump to have a chance, and I really work my ass off every day, so when someone brought it up I said just that, and that was the end of the conversation.
-Before the job I MIGHT get 4 miles total walking 1 day out of the week. I'm doing around 10 miles a day now just in the day to day.
-Depression and outlook on life dramatically changing, part job change, part being active, part being outdoors
-The job is like being an adventurer, carpenter, scientist and teacher all in one.
-Getting into really good cardio shape without even trying.
-Meeting really cool people that talk about interesting things. I've never worked with so many intelligent people that keep me so compelled to listen.
-Pretty much have 2 huge parks to myself, half the day I'm usually hiking for pleasure, but also to find stuff/work on stuff that benefits us long term.
-Working with new tools and just becoming "tough". Like when I started I was afraid to step on bushes and now my arms are just diced up from reaching into sketchy places and going for it.
Honestly so much shit that I'm so grateful for and will never take for granted. My life has been such a fucking shit show up until now and it really feels like all the things I wanted are being given to me for just hanging in there. I'll write more, but I'm just really happy for once in my life. My friend told me he's really happy for me because he knows how hard things have been for me for so long, and every time I think about him being happy for me it makes me want to cry. Love you guys and just life right now. It gets better if you believe it will, even if it takes 15 years.
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