Thursday, March 7, 2013

The split

Currently, i'm thinking about what or where I want to go in the future. One part of me says I should go into video making(probably not the right term). Another part of me says I should go in IT; programming, designing websites, anything IT related. Yet a different part of my body/mind, says I should go into business, but of course there's also this one part of my brain that says to me, "You should go into Event managing." One last part of me tells me to become an investor, because of my merching experience in games(clearly not completely relate-able in real life, due to several reasons) . Also, a while ago, part of me wanted to be a museum curator... but I dropped that idea due to reasons i'll explain in the pros and cons list.

Now, let's look at this in a structured way.
  1. Video editor
  2. IT related job e.g. programming, designing a website, etc...
  3. Business related job.
  4. Event manager.
  5. Investor 
Let's go about this the way they taught you in school.Pros verses Cons.


1) Video Editing

Pros of being a video editor:
  •  Fun and Challenging.
  • You can work with one team for the rest of your life (e.g. JKFilms). In terms of the editing bit, not the acting bit... that shit needs new people all the time.
  • It's a creative art, you're only limited by imagination.
  • If you get paid for it, time that is dedicated into making videos, is not considered to be a waste.
  • You can always be learning new things while editing a video.
  • The work place can be fun.
Cons of being a video editor:
  •  If you have a low spec. computer, you're basically fucked. It'll be too laggy to work with.
  • Can be tedious at times.
  • Getting that timing correct is seriously one of the most annoying things you will ever have to deal with in life.
  • The jobs out there are pretty competitive... but there is YouTube.
  • It costs money to buy soundtracks/certain video clips, or to develop your own soundtracks.
  • It is initially hard to find funding.
2) IT related job
  • Lots of options
  •  It is literally limitless the things you can do on a computer.
  • Worry about the business world, and the ethics related to it.
  • Can be worked from anywhere(sometimes).
Cons:
  • Lots of options... is also a negative one because you might not know where to head for a job.
  • Constantly changing. Might be hard to keep up.
  • Hard to learn, but once learnt, it is powerful knowledge.
  • Lots and lots of jargon, code, structures to remember. Kind of like learning a new language.
This post probably won't be finished, so I'll just post it anyways. IT IS 2:28AM here right now. So I may never finish this post.

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