This freelance thing, especially as someone just starting out, really feels like being lost in the forest. You know you got skills, but you don't know how much your skills are worth. You don't always know how to move forward. When you get a client it feels fantastic, but after the project is done, you're wondering when the next project will come along...
Had a rough day. Think I've been pushing myself on the productivity front too much recently. Even though I'm glad for the time (summer vacation) and for figuring out my best personal workflow, I gotta ease up a little bit and not expect myself to be designing, coding, writing, working out, studying Japanese, and keeping a relationship afloat 24/7 without a break.
Tik tok should probably be deleted.
According to the FCC TikTok is said to collect “everything”, from search and browsing histories; keystroke patterns; biometric identifiers—including faceprints, something that might be used in “unrelated facial recognition technology”, and voiceprints—location data; draft messages; metadata; and data stored on the clipboard, including text, images, and videos.
My friend in the States tried to give me the hookup vis a vis hiring on new designers to deal with the growing company's growing needs. I was unceremoniously rejected after one project, no notes, no discussion. (My friend told me afterwards that the company's long-time resident designer didn't want new blood to push her out, so she was making a fuss.)
Now: my friend, being a friend, reached out to me one more time for a voiceover project. This time, despite not being a voiceover actor at all, for whatever reason one of the characters in a certain presentation was a Black man. And none of her other coworkers knew any Black men.
So I used my shiny new mic, recorded a few lines, sent them in. My friend tells me the boss was so pleased with my work that they might contact me again in the future for other voice stuff.
I'm delighted. The universe works in mysterious ways...
dysfunction in romantic and parent/child relationships
"You will become your parents."
"You will be attracted to people who remind you of your parents."
These things *sound* ridiculous, but I've spent the last three or so years investigating why I keep ending up with narcissistic women, and it's because these things are true.
My dad wasn't in the picture growing up, so I got to sort of figure out manhood all on my own, but I keep ending up with women who resort to anger or the threat of their displeasure as a first line of defense (or offense). And nearly all of them have overbearing, angry mothers.
I really wish I could tell people to make sure they're emotionally prepared to have children, because I've seen it with my own eyes how they pass on a legacy of dysfunction when they're not.
asking for HTML and CSS learning recommendations
Hey, I'm Sam. Haitian-American living in Japan since 2010. Freelance #designer and #writer. Trying to balance the anger and the love I have for this life. Blog: blackandgoldlines.wordpress.com
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