hey, i've been garnering an influx of fans on newgrounds lately. what better way to celebrate than with another unnecessary life update?
i'd like to preface this blog post by making it clear to you in advance: i am a 20 year old shut-in with no job nor active schooling. my life is extremely uneventful and uninteresting, so if you've started reading this in anticipation of some grand anecdote, now is the time to stop reading. i'm writing this purely for self-therapeutic reasons
so what's been going on with me? not much. i've been self-reflecting a lot lately, which I try to avoid doing since i've now reached the age where thinking back to the "good old days" starts to hurt because you tend to automatically compare the past to the present and future.
one of my covers ended up being used in Newgrounds vs Youtube, which i felt pretty honored to find out about.
i don't have the consistent release schedule that most other musicians on newgrounds have, but i still plan on making more music for the foreseeable future. time isn't an issue, it's just a personal preference of mine to only really work on music when i have a particularly inspired streak going, which now happens more consistently than it used to atleast. so if you're one of the 5 or so people that follow my work: you're in for a lot more in the future.
in other news: i may be getting my driver's license soon. i have an exam on the 17th this month, and if all goes well, i may finally be driving myself around soon.
i've been doing pretty much nothing besides work on the driver's license and the entry exam since september now, which may seem like an unusually long time to most other drivers, but i guess that's just how the system has evolved in recent years. the amount of people who own and drive a car is becoming a real problem, and they're hoping to slightly remedy it by raising the bar for getting your license to begin with. it's kind of an awkward time for me to be doing my driver's license, but i'm content with simply having done it, even though i've spent more than 3000 euros on it so far. i hope to be able to drive myself to concerts and other stuff once i finally have my own car.
as for finding a job or someplace to study; there hasn't been much of any progress. i have a plan Z in place which involves my dad trying to secure me a job at his brother-in-law's social office for the disabled, which is really not something i particularly care for but if all else fails, that's probably going to be what i do.
i signed up for indeed and linkedin (unnecessarily) a few weeks ago, which are essentially job hunting sites. you make a profile and then have an algorithm suggest local jobs to you that may fit your preferred work criteria. i don't know if it's just me being stingy or ignorant or what, but every job that i'm being offered kind of feels like it falls under the same 5 categories. you're either driving around town delivering something, arranging things, cleaning things, exchanging money or selling something. i know that you're not meant to be picky about what job you want, but i feel like it's got to be atleast something that i won't quit after 2 weeks because of boredom or apathy in the task at hand. none of the advice i'm getting from anyone seems to help my particular situation so i guess i'll just have to wing it and see what happens in the future.
that's all i got on my mind right now. i'm in the NG supporter chat during most days so feel free to come hang out there.