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Here's a lil life/content update
🕑 Added 2023-12-14 13:03:21 +0000 UTCHewo! Here's a lil life/content update:
First of all, Happy Holidays and all that jazz. Y'all better have got an advent calendar. If you havent you can probably find a reduced price one. Life's too short to not have a treat every morning.
Anywho, I only have a handful of days left of my day job - not only for the year, but overall.
I quit my job! Kinda. I’m switching from being employed to freelancing/contracting for the same company temporarily, before moving away from that company and being a freelancer/self employed entirely.
I’m taking the risk, and in the new year, dedicating more time towards my content creation in place of my current job.
It’s a risk because my income from all this is much less than I have been earning from my day job. At the same time, though, I have savings, I still live at home, and this is the perfect time to be taking that risk.
Alex and I have been talking about moving in together for forever, but he’s a fresh graduate and is accruing some savings and funds first, and I want to be able to take this risk in that same time so (hopefully) by the time we can look at living together, my social media income is enough :) If I need more funds I can freelance for other creators with video editing or thumbnails or storyboarding or anything like that, or very worst case, get a new job with my suite of new experience and numbers from my owie creations under my CV belt. Don't worry about me, basically! I have a brain in my skull, believe it or not, and I'm very money responsible. Whatever happens, I will work it out :)
What does this mean for me? The main difference is that I’ll be working for way less hours at my day job and specifically only on graphic design tasks, compared to the full suite of digital marketing tasks I was doing before, and have much more time to work on the owie stuff in the day rather than burning myself out by working at my job and creating in my spare time.
What does this mean for you? More owie content!
I’m hoping to spend some time looking at merch options as well. Aside from typical merch, I’d love to eventually release a colouring book or something like that eventually, too. If anything merch related crops up I’ll be sure to be showing you guys first and hearing your thoughts about potential designs.
I’m going to go a bit quiet over the Christmas period to spend time with family and really rest up and recharge, but you should see a new video before the end of the year, and hopefully two videos in January. I think I will schedule some image/text posts to automatically go up over the Christmas break for you guys with behind the scenes content from the early days of owie :)
Thank you for being here! Your contribution is so appreciated and is part of why this risk feels worth taking. If people like you are believing in me, I have all the more reason to think it might all work out for the best. <3
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Puncake
I wish you smooth sailing for your future ventures and admire you for taking a risk for the path you love owie, we'll always be here to support ya, no matter what dont give up!! also happy holidays :)
