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Even though it's almost the next day.
May the best thing that happened to you last year, be the worst thing that happens to you this year.
I'm going to be making more of an effort to not lurk and actually post this year. It's going to be an interesting year for me personally. I really hope it's going to be less interesting for the rest of the world.
My boss is retiring. Or I guess, technically retired since the last official day of the office was New Year's Eve. Still have a lot of packing up of the office to do. As he remarked several times the past few days, it's amazing how much stuff gets accumulated in 40 years.
I started there about six months after out-processing from the Navy. I just needed something that would give me a paycheck and it's been pretty good for that for the last 26 years.
Even so, I always wanted something different, better. Something that I really enjoyed and was good at. I haven't made much progress on the voice acting career this year. I still record for LibriVox and that has been a lot of fun. But there is still so many technical aspects of it that I have to get right before I start trying to get paying jobs. And no, this isn't a case of "everything has to be perfect before I can do this." With so much recording being done from home, and that was even before the world imploded, if the recording doesn't meet exacting standards, it's worthless to even try for jobs.
I have managed to turn my closet into a dedicated recording space and I'm getting closer on getting the noise floor and peak levels and RMS levels and dB and a partridge in a pear tree right, but I'd really rather just show up at a studio, record, and leave the technical details to a sound engineer who enjoys their job and let me do the part I'm good at.
Anyway, for my severance I'm going to be on the payroll for my boss's wife's company for the next year, drawing the same paycheck, but I won't be going into the office or actually doing any work. It's an excellent deal for me. Now I just have to get another job, but at least I have time to plan and prepare.
What I really want to do with the voice acting is animation which should fulfill my fantasies of just recording and not editing. To that end, I'm working on learning coding in order to finance training, because I have a hard time remembering that just because I am good at this, it doesn't mean that I don't have to work at it.
I'm pretty comfortable-ish with HTML and CSS, though I'm a long way from being hirable. Next up is JavaScript, but I'm taking time off and doing nothing, or cleaning, for the next week. Though I will have to go in and help pack things up and take more things home.
I hope every one had a wonderful New Year.
May the best thing that happened to you last year, be the worst thing that happens to you this year.
I'm going to be making more of an effort to not lurk and actually post this year. It's going to be an interesting year for me personally. I really hope it's going to be less interesting for the rest of the world.
My boss is retiring. Or I guess, technically retired since the last official day of the office was New Year's Eve. Still have a lot of packing up of the office to do. As he remarked several times the past few days, it's amazing how much stuff gets accumulated in 40 years.
I started there about six months after out-processing from the Navy. I just needed something that would give me a paycheck and it's been pretty good for that for the last 26 years.
Even so, I always wanted something different, better. Something that I really enjoyed and was good at. I haven't made much progress on the voice acting career this year. I still record for LibriVox and that has been a lot of fun. But there is still so many technical aspects of it that I have to get right before I start trying to get paying jobs. And no, this isn't a case of "everything has to be perfect before I can do this." With so much recording being done from home, and that was even before the world imploded, if the recording doesn't meet exacting standards, it's worthless to even try for jobs.
I have managed to turn my closet into a dedicated recording space and I'm getting closer on getting the noise floor and peak levels and RMS levels and dB and a partridge in a pear tree right, but I'd really rather just show up at a studio, record, and leave the technical details to a sound engineer who enjoys their job and let me do the part I'm good at.
Anyway, for my severance I'm going to be on the payroll for my boss's wife's company for the next year, drawing the same paycheck, but I won't be going into the office or actually doing any work. It's an excellent deal for me. Now I just have to get another job, but at least I have time to plan and prepare.
What I really want to do with the voice acting is animation which should fulfill my fantasies of just recording and not editing. To that end, I'm working on learning coding in order to finance training, because I have a hard time remembering that just because I am good at this, it doesn't mean that I don't have to work at it.
I'm pretty comfortable-ish with HTML and CSS, though I'm a long way from being hirable. Next up is JavaScript, but I'm taking time off and doing nothing, or cleaning, for the next week. Though I will have to go in and help pack things up and take more things home.
I hope every one had a wonderful New Year.
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