Preparing For The Future, and Failing

I left my full time job in November 2017, based on the one soul fact that my crypto portfolio would finally allow me to move on with a life long dream of living on the road. This is a real thing called "boondocking," or full time RVing . It is the " freest " way I could find to live inside the USA without being tied down by most state/federal laws and local/property taxes. This also would have finally freed me from the burden of any debts.

Some people see full time RVing as glorified homelessness, but to me it smells of freedom. In fact, this entire process, was going to cost me a fortune to even get off the ground. I procrastinated, but needed a "JOB" that would pay while living on the road. Programming and coding was my big, go to, but with freelance programming, "winning," contracts were a huge challenge.

I watched as my Crypto portfolio shrank, quickly, and before I knew it, I had lost enough wealth to prevent me from taking the boondocking step, but deep down inside, I knew it would come back up. So I focused on living off of Top Ramen and trying to find more sources of income. After a few months I blew through my fiat, and I had to start dipping into my Bitcoin Cash, and other lesser altcoin(BTC) balances, just to live off of. I couldn't keep losing cryptocurrency balances this would destroy every dream I had. I stared at the charts, just expecting it to go up and get me back on track and finally about two months ago, and a few failed Bitcoin consultations(nobody wants to tip with fees so high) and only one freelance programming gig. I had to try writing.

My First Yours Article

I didn't think I could write, let alone had anything to say that anyone wanted to listen to, read, or view. Turns out I did have some things to say, whether it was my experiences or my crazy fascination with armchair philosophy, psychology and economics that gave me, not only the motivation to try, but also content to write about.

My first article took a good 4 hours to write, but ended up making about $30, while this was not a huge amount. I figured this would be more than enough, almost minimum wage, while living on the road.

Not Paying the Bills

While I was thinking Yours.Org would be a way to make money, my first articles did well, but the Crypto economy continued to fail/fall and less people were participating in the general ecosystem. On top of that, I have spent everything I've earned back into Yours.org/Twitter and other Bitcoin Cash Related projects in an effort to stimulate the economy. I feel guilty hodling, even for a purpose.

So if this wasn't good enough, I HAD TO GET BETTER, I started to learn how to program for Bitcoin, took multiple online courses, and picked up a "grunt work" Unity game project.

Data Entry For Game Creators

So I basically just gave you an entire back story of what brought me here, today. During the Unity Project, I was pretty much tasked to import already drawn/designed models into a game, assign AI scripts, and make sure the models moved correctly. I had used Unity quite a bit, before, but never really had to crossover into the "design" aspect of the models/characters so I barely touched " Blender ." During this project I had to do some basic fixes to models, due to clipping problems, and also had to learn how to add Armatures and do something called "rigging" of the models.

But I Don't Know What I'm Doing

So, of course, I oversold my abilities, ,to get the "Unity" project and of course told the creator I had tons on "Blender" experience. Now I had to learn and learn quick. I opened up "Blender" in complete astonishment, buttons and boxes everywhere.

I really had to focus on just learning what I needed, but seriously have you ever seen a USER INTERFACE this busy? So I went to YouTube and Typed " blender user interface ." The first video was created by a guy who named his YouTube Channel " Blender Guru " so it can't be bad, right? Luckily, yes this was right. There are a lot of "shit," how to, Blender videos and how to blogs, but turns out this guy is the real deal.

12 Hours Later

12 hours later a bunch of videos, a lot of Google and YouTube searching and a lot of failed attempts. I was finally was able to use the interface and had some semblance of the CRAZY keyboard shortcuts and controls. Well at least enough that I was able to do the specific task I set out to do. I was still not an artist by any stretch, and I still had no clue how to do 99% of what blender can do, but as long as I focused on one step at a time, practice and continued to study I might be able to do something with this tool, but I had to focus on the paying job.

After Finishing the Unity Project

The entire time, while working on the Unity project, and during my free time I knew that this " LONG FORM BLOGGING " thing is kind of a dying art. We live in a world where the written word is just, too boring. I have to do more if I want to make a living off of the internet.

How to Art

I'm not an artist, in fact, my drawing attempts always ended up with a crazy looking stick figures. I always said "I can't even draw a straight line," which was very true, so I never really tried, but since I was able to succeed at the assigned Unity task, why couldn't I learn more? Why couldn't I learn to " art "? So off to YouTube again, and I typed in the search box, "I can't even draw a straight line," and clicked on the first video that came up,

After watching this: many Google and YouTube searches followed:

By this time I had enough of the gist of "artistry" to start creating in blender. There is no instruction manual and there is no, one, given course that I can give you as advice, but Google and YouTube are your friend. If you want to make metal then search, "how to make metal in blender." If you want to know about how to LIGHT a scene then watch videos on "lighting."

The Future

At this point, I have published 3 "animated GIf's to the internet each designed around BCH in an effort to increase my income, and at the same time provide a smile/like/increase followers etc.. The future of the world is Digital, If you do not have talents that can translate into electronic abilities, creating content, or stimulating peoples minds, I highly suggest you take time to start on this path or many others that offer stimuli for other human beings.





Even though I'm getting better with each challenge I'm also failing a lot in the process, you should have seen the major failure of an animation, I tried last night, Oh My God, some of this can't be seen by human eyes, but each challenge I fail at, or succeed, helps me with my web/game design, artistry and animations. It also changes how I look at the world. Looking at a leaf, tree blossoms or a rotting apple makes you see the world in a much different way. Where everything has beauty, even the ugly things.





Side note: If you do want to take the step into "Blender" you will eventually "try" for photo realism. Wouldn't that be great?

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