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How to Become an Interior Designer
Being an interior designer has a lot to do with not just the theoretical knowledge you’ve obtained throughout your years of education but also with your own personal creativity. Having a “good eye” for detail is equally as important as knowing how to make room plans and take accurate measures.
By Cooper Klein7 years ago in Journal
Why It’s So Important to Leave That Toxic Job
Having a job is an amazing sense of independence and freedom. You meet new people, find strengths within yourself you probably didn’t know you had, and get to reap the benefits of your long hours served for your company. The paycheque. Now, you’re stuck in that crazy 9-5 drag every single day. And as if that didn’t make it hard enough? You work in a toxic environment. Your bosses do not take into consideration, the commitment you have, the sacrifices you have made. Your complaints are not being heard or addressed. You are being mistreated, not only by peers. Now by yourself. Your mental health is now at risk. You come home more emotionally exhausted then you are physically. You become snappy and snide. Rude to people you do not intend to be rude too. You have no energy anymore; no drive. You can feel your good days slipping through your fingers like sand.
By Katie White7 years ago in Journal
When I Voice-Acted on YouTube...
So in today's world of social media, I think we can all agree that online video platforms have caught our eye from time to time with the cliche cat video as well as everyday people like us falling on their butts from their risky shenanigans. Well... it seemed the heavily populated platform known as YouTube caught my attention during my days as an introverted high school student who wanted to share something he thoroughly enjoyed! Now, I have many interests that I am passionate about ranging from art, music, dancing, & even writing (which is what has brought me to THIS platform), but one of the interests out of the bunch that gave me most clarity was acting... even though I had the absolute WORST stage fright of any single person in my hometown. This was a bummer... HOW would I be able to share something I love to do without fainting or having a panic attack (which I dealt with frequently)? To me it seemed I found a loophole one day while having a lazy moment with a good friend of mine as we played video games. Now the game we were playing is very well known—*cough* C.O.D. *cough*—so you, the reader, may know a certain mode involving the undead that lies within the game. Hours of playtime and I picked up many of the sound effects, even recognizing them to the point of actually imitating most of them... imitating them to the point where my friend was... uh... pretty annoyed. Haha I enjoyed it though... It gave me a chance to escape some of the insecurity I felt about myself to "be something different." I think that is when I officially got the bug for voice-acting!Now what? How would I start creating online as a voice-actor when I had primarily been a dancer at the time? Well, I knew for sure I had to get the essentials, which were a microphone & computer. The rest I knew I could research and adapt to. Now as a full-time high school student, allowance was my only dependable form of income. I shared the idea of using my voice online with my mother who, of course, was supportive enough to help me get a netbook & inexpensive headset from a small but well-known retail store so I could get started. I did a good amount of research, searching for tools that would be at my disposal as an amateur "voice-actor." I eventually came upon the program known as Audacity. I really couldn't believe it... a FREE sound editing program up for grabs to whomever may need it for whatever work that needed to be done (NOT SPONSORED). You would not believe how late I stayed up the very same night of installing it, learning how to trim sound, clean up noise, modify my voice, just thoroughly learning what I could to up my game. After days of practicing editing, I was ready to begin... and I was stumped again because I needed one last essential... a NICHE! What was I going to act as? Should I narrate things as well? I hadn't even thought of a username yet! Ironically enough, that aspect of my journey came from one of my favorite video game series of all time... Resident Evil. Horror! That would be great! Not only can I be suspenseful for the fun, but I can grow a definite audience since horror & scary media provoked a certain feeling in their viewers. An adrenaline rush? I know that's why I always went back to scary movies, it was such a thrill! Looking for horror stories across all platforms I could find was actually the best thing I could've done as it led me to what most of the online world know as "CreepyPasta." Short online horror stories, eh? I can do that! With endless content from such a large community, I narrated and acted out my first reading of "The Clown Statue."
By Jake Vargas7 years ago in Journal
Advantages of Working in the Medical Field
It can be tough finding a career path that is able to reward you as much as your services reward others. While the amount of education that is required for such professions may turn some people off from these opportunities, the advantages make them totally worth it. One area that serves as a great example is the medical field.
By Carlos Fox7 years ago in Journal
Character Traits
All my life I’ve been an entrepreneur and a go getter. I make it happen. I had one thing that I never thought I’d complete. I’ve always told people I’m writing a book. Year after year, I told people that but never had a title or a beginning or an ending. Not long ago, I did publish an autobiography called Emotional Hustler. I had been holding onto this book for over 20 years.
By Laura Thomas7 years ago in Journal
