RE: Is Teaching ESL in China a Dead End Job?!
Great video man. I love how you edited it at the beginning, what program are you using?
There's one really good point you made in this video and it kind of goes along with the whole monetize your life and document what your doing to earn money.
There's so many people who live in fascinating or beautiful places and they don't take advantage of their location. You are a perfect example and illustrated this very well.
Another one, my girlfriends cousin lives in Hawaii. SHe's really into hiking and staying fit. Everyday they go hike mountains, go to beautiful waterfalls etc andthey share it on their Facebook, but make no effort to monetize it. If they were to put that stuff on Dtube or Steemit or Youtube they'd probably make a good amount of money.
Same thing if someone lives in a historic city, I'm thinking of my folks who live in South Carolina, when I go down there it's fascinating how you can be going through an average suburban neighborhood and see a plaque in someoen's front yard about how the first shot of this civil war battle was shot here or something like that. I'd be going all over the city making videos of historic places and telling the story. So many ways to make money.
I am using a free open source program called Kdenlive on my Linux Mint OS. The first clip is called a hyperlapse. You take multiple photos focused on the same point while taking a few steps towards/away from it and then put it all together as a video sequence with video stabilization. The second clip is called a timelapse. Same idea as a hyperlapse but you keep your camera on a tripod in one position and have an app on your camera that can take photos in 2-3 second intervals.
Teaching in China allows me to travel here and experience a new life. There are so many foreigners here that do nothing but teach. Hell, they have been here for over 5+ years and still can't speak any Chinese even.
I agree. It is important to start. Once you start positing amateur videos of your travels, you may feel the urge to upgrade and make better videos so that you can monetize your content and learn a new skills (filming and editing).
Most people don't take advantage of where they live. I think everyone that lives in their hometown considers it “boring" because they are used to everything. If they actually saw their city from the place of a tourist, they could probably find a lot of stuff that others find interesting.