The Lovely Impossible Job Market

For anyone looking for a job you probably know that the job market has taken a drastic nose dive from wanting to hire people to becoming the Spanish inquisition.  And if by some crazy chance, you actually do get an interview, forget being yourself.  If you don't fit the qualifications of the rest of their human robot workers, well... sorry man, but no call back for you.  In my field its only that much harder.  It would be my dream to be a trailer editor for movies or video games.  But my field requires the experience... usually no less than 3-5 years of it to be exact.  Now imagine trying to find a job when you've had an internship that only gives you a total of a little less than half a year of experience.


But what makes the situation that much worse for me is that I love video editing--I even do it in my free time--but I have capturing material for the project.  As a result my free time editing projects usually include material that other people have captured... yes, copyrighted material.  Now, under the fair use clause, I can legally make these videos.  And out of everything I do, they probably show the best side of my editing skills.  But because they use copyrighted material... I can't use them in my portfolio... How about that?  Rock in a hard place.


True, I also have a small body of work that I've made entirely from scratch, but you know you have a problem when it doesn't even warrant a phone call from a news station that's so desperate for professionals in your field that they're willing to hire people fresh out of high school with limited film knowledge.  Why is it so hard to find a job?  Why is it that everyone is so concerned with your personality and experience that your skills are factored in last?  Why is it that no one will give college graduates a chance unless someone is throwing their weight around and practically getting the job for you?  Does hard work and determination really not count anymore?  You tell me.


At what point do you just lose faith in being properly employed and just make your own way?


How come things have gotten so bad that I can actually ask a question like that?  Why doesn't the job industry care about young people?  I really want to know...

Masters Never Seen

So I came upon something today that I had to share with you.  This is truly incredible.  The man in the video you are about to see is from a small dragon painter shop in Japan.  He makes this truly incredible and flawless painting in less than ten minutes, and the detail is out of this world.  If you're an artist of any kind, I invite you to view this with an open mind, an active imagination, and a respect for a true art that I feel we've lost in the western world.

This video is also a much shorter breakdown of a similar piece.

Interconnected Disconnection...

So, while I've been job searching and taking a few clicks to get some R&R, I've taken the opportunity to manage my youtube based studio a little better.  For those who don't know, I host four different youtube channels.  Three get updated regularly, and the other is my professional work, so it takes longer to crank out work.  One of these regularly updated channels is contributed to be four other people other than myself.  And lately, we've all been trying to chat with each other.  But here lies the problem... we're all in completely different time zones:

UK - London - 1:00AM ~ THURS

Egypt - Cairo - 2:00AM ~ THURS

Eastern - NY - 8:00PM ~ WED

Central - OK - 7:00PM ~ WED

Pacific - CA - 5:00PM ~ WED

Talk about a complete nightmare.  So I'm coming across the crazy part of just how connected our world is.  The diversity of having people from so many walks of life is utterly amazing.  You have so many different opinions at the touch of a button.  Still that isn't to say that because of the diversity, problems don't arise.  It's a give and take process.  Learning how to deal with diversity is important to adapting to our current world.  Still, even spanning over multiple continents, we somehow can create one project together.  In my book, this is how media helps the world come together... not only through easy access to news, but also through easy conversation and coming together to achieve projects--both in business and for personal use.