The Reinvention of Me or What to do when you realize where you are isn’t where you want to be
Back in high school I discovered my passion: digital video editing. It’s a combination of so many of my interests that even when I’m pulling my hair out with bad footage, I wouldn’t chose to do anything else.
But I drifted off track in college, mainly because of financial concerns. I earned my BA in History, not in Communications as I originally intended. My senior internship was as a student teacher, not in a production company or studio like I had originally planned. After a reasonably disasterous year attempting to teach high school, budget cuts and my own mistakes cost me that job. And you know what? I was happy that it did.
Sine that happened I’ve been working for a well-known electonics and computing company, first part-time, now full-time. The salary is good, and the bebcits are amazing. Its given me peace of mind in my financial and medical lives for the near future. And unlike teaching, there isn’t any work to take home, so I’m free to do other things on my time.
Those other things fall into two main areas: my home life and media. I was brought on board to direct the first season of the web series “Issues”, which is now planning a second season. I’m preparing to work on a few short form pieces, and am starting to venture into unknown territory by stepping up to be the producer of a second web series some people very close to me are writing. To build a knowledge base of what it takes to run a production company I’m earning a graduate certificate in Media Management o a part-time basis – I’ll have the certificate by this time next year. In the long run I’m looking at earning an MBA part-time to really build a business background for myself. I’ll also continue to produce and edit as often as I can. Aside from the projects being worked on already, there’s an idea for a second series and a short floating around.
It’s going to take time – you can’t remake yourself overnight. But I’m well on the road to leaving my biggest mistake in judgement behind, and getting back to what I really want to be doing.
