General My First Real Motovlog

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Well, apparently my first draft didn't make it.

This is my first real motovlog, and I know I'm talking about a dead-horse topic but I am just starting out and trying to get better at actually talking to myself.

I had a really long intro description saved oh...wait...sweet...

I had it all saved in OneNote a few days ago...here it is:


Ok ladies and gents, I'm putting myself out there.

Having fun with editing and learning a bunch of stuff with Premiere, Photoshop (again) and even some Audition (used to record with Audacity and Cool Edit Pro 2 (the outro, and intro to my fireworks/roller coaster videos as well were recorded in Cool Edit Pro 2), which became Audition anyway.

I know I have a long road ahead of me, and hopefully over time, I will come into my own with a unique flavor, and hopefully some snappier commentary. For my first few episodes, I'm planning on covering some dead horse topics, for the same reason people start playing MarioKart on 50cc, gotta eat the low hanging fruit before learning to climb to the high branches.

It's actually kind of intimidating, posting this among peers, especially after watching some of the videos that you guys put up here, I'm not deluded enough to think that this video is anything special, but hopefully a stepping stone to something that could be.

Thanks in advance for checking it out.

My channel is closing in on 60,000 lifetime views, but motovlogging is something that I've wanted to do for a long time, even just a basic, ride and talk format. The rest of my channel centers around fireworks (my videos are featured yearly at michiganfireworks.com), and I've been working on catching POV shots at amusement parks (which can land me in some hot water...but...rebels right?).

I've been waiting 48 long hours to put this up, I'm going to work on another episode and for some reason have been really feeling the pressure to step it up. I like pressure though, it brings out the best in me.

 
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Thank you, I look forward to uploading more videos, and improving my craft.

I sure know who's recording :)

I tend to make sure anyone getting too close to me see's my camera clearly too.
 
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I'm watching your first vlog as I type this.

Interesting, going through your profile to find your channel...we were born within a week of each other and both work IT.

How cool is that?
 
Lol yeah got your playing in the background aswell. yeah i dont know what it is about IT guys and motovlogging. there is a lot of us out there. lol
 
I think it's our natural love for gadgetry. Plus motorcycles being a great outlet to get some excitement out of life. IT isn't exactly exciting. I've been pondering leaving it behind for manufacturing. Kind of tired of being in a chair all day sort of thing.
 
It want hurt to go to the interview. I know if i can find a different job soon, I am going to look into moving out of IT and into something else. I keep getting stuck in doing nothing but working on end user stuff and never get to move up the ladder.
 
Yeah, I've been doing customer facing work for the past 14 years.

I'm kind of tired of it. I like doing the work, I just hate answering a bunch of assinine "are we there yet" type questions on the way.

I'm also attracted to the idea of actually creating something tangible, that can be held.

I remember way back when, I was a floor-cleaner at night for Walmart. We would spend 8 hours cleaning and buffing all the floors, cleaning all the carpets and waxing a section based on area rotation.

Before I even left work, I would watch the store open, and watch 8 hours of my work destroyed in 10 minutes of muddy feet, dropped food etc. It was really disenheartening. Fast forward 18 years, and a college education plus a bunch of job experienc, and I don't really feel any different...what I do really doesn't matter in the end. It's all good, until something goes down and someone spends 20 minutes not making all the money possible...

I actually have a lot of goodwill with our customers, and we have some really really big customer (major insurance brokerage and an international produce...producer as examples). My last job was upper tier support for a company that basically owns the Canadian home/auto insurance quoting market (85% of the market when I started with them), they were a local Windsor company that was built on this software in 1983, and then branched out into insurance brokerages of their own as well. Then a Chicago based company (Applied Systems) purchased the software, and our department. When I left them and came here, we had a few common customers (I'd worked with my current company frequently at my old job as well). But a lot of the brokers remembered me from Applied/Compu-Quote which was pretty cool. I will miss some of that interaction, when it comes to customer service, not to toot my own horn (toot toot) but I provide an experience that can only be described as something special. I refuse to be mechanical, I'm always friendly and personable, make jokes an try and make sure that the customers are relaxed.

At the end of the day though, I'm just tired of the song and dance...it's come to take a lot of my energy away and I've been finding it hard to actually do my job itself because of it.

The idea of having multiple trades also doesn't hurt. Especially since IT is really dependant on our current economic structure, which is starting to show it's cracks. Plus the fact that it's become so commoditized and is a prime example of race-to-the-bottom wages, I just don't feel the industry anymore.
 
yeah feel the same. at the end of the day i feel like i have not don anything to better anything in the world (other than the stock holders pockets) lol and i hate feeling that way
 
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