Living The Dream???

For over 12 years I have worked as an industrial electrician. I even graduated school to become an instrument technician. Those who know about these fields can attest that that these are VERY lucrative careers. So how is it that I now desire to walk away from my expertise and start a career blogging, making videos, and driving for ride share companies?

It is because I have decided to live my dream instead of talking about it!

We only have a short time upon this earth. It is my dream to spend as much of that time; enjoying my friends and family, meeting new potential friends and discovering as much of the world as I can. It is not an easy decision to walk into the land of dreams. That land is filled with potential heartaches, trials , financial struggles and depressions. Still, I must go forth! I MUST push! Dying without trying is living without meaning!

What pushed me to stop talking and start doing? The death of my Father. In 2015 my Father passed away. At the time I was primary custodian of my 2 daughters. My Mother was my primary support in caring for them so that I could still work in my trade. She would get up in the wee hours and come to my house so that I could leave for work. She was the one who got them up and on the bus each morning. It was her that met them each day when they arrived home from school. Who made sure they completed their school work.

With the passing of my Father though I also lost this support. Because she could not continue taking care of them when she was hurting so deeply. So I made a hard choice and let my daughters move in with their Mom. She had a more flexible career schedule which allowed her to tend to our daughters better than I could.

It seemed that my world was crumbling around me. Grieving for the loss of my Father and then my daughters leaving to live with their Mom was a hard time for me. My career which demanded long hours for companies that were making massive profits with little concern for their employees was now becoming the enemy of my mind. Work that I once loved...I now loathed! Because in my mind it was the cause of me missing out on my daughters lives. You see. Their mother lives with them in a state up north while I am in the south...about a 13 hours drive away.

The solution seemed simple. Work for yourself so you can come and go as you please. The problem...what do I have to offer in the online department. I am not a typing expert for transcription work. Not a website designer, graphics designer, CAD operator, or school tutor. That's when I decided to shoot for doing voice over work. That requires training though - which is all but non-existent in my area. I turned to YouTube and saw how others had succeeded there and decided to try that.

What happened is that I fell in Love with making videos and sharing my life experiences with others.

So here I am....

I have struggled for months now on YouTube trying to gain an audience. Only to have them completely change the parameters and make my journey that much harder. My growth is still in infancy with only 29 subscribers as of this writing. My total views were only a little over 4,000. Still there was hope. Hope which is fading as I see that platform become more and more the exact reason we abandoned cable television. Money is the master...I get that. However, YouTube, your bread and butter was not in selling out to corporations. It was in the community of creators who helped to bring viewers back over and over to your site. I digress.

Then I found Steemit and hope again is restored that maybe...just maybe. I can achieve my dream here on a site that fosters creativity and community over corporate greed. I am hoping that my voice will find a home here while also helping me to live my dream!

If you read all of this. Thank You!!!!