Week Two, One Week Out
A common theme here with 1's and 2's. I have no clue why, just worked out that way. Anyways, hi guys! It's ya boi Dubstache back here with another blog post. Just kidding, but really, welcome back. This last week was quite eventful. As far as real life stuff goes, I really didn't have a whole lot of time to do stuff for me. I worked 4 days, one of them was a double and I served at the State Fair for the coffee stand. That was a good time. I spent the three straight days off playing with friends and streaming over 10 hours total per day. It felt like shifts but if you do what you love, you never work a day in your life, right?
That's the problem, I was working. I had a set schedule for the first time in a long time, I planned out my entire week but I forgot the key component: me time. After I posted my first blog last week, I took a hard look at the time spent streaming and the time spent working and started thinking about what else I was doing to improve myself as a person and moving forward with a career. I don't like wasting time, but I couldn't help but feel that the 60 hours of streaming I did on top of the 30 hours of actual work at my job didn't return the profit I FEEL I deserve. I put an emphasis on feel, because maybe, just maybe, I haven't earned the right to earn the money I desire. However, part of me felt like I was letting the lack of return on time for revenue dictate my worth as a streamer and a person. That's not good. One thing I personally do to avoid that is have a day to myself where I go to lunch with a group or just a friend and we just hang out and chat, or I go on a hike. I didn't have any time this week to look at what I had done or what I am doing and make sure I was REALLY taking care of myself. That's a big goal for me to work on for the rest of the year. It also hit me like a freight train that I definitely will have to scale back streaming hours in preparation for school and classes coming back in the fall because until I have the job I want, I don't have anything to back it up as far as a degree that shows I know what I'm doing with all of the systems in place in today's Gaming/Entertainment industry. A lot of stuff you can learn via Youtube, and other third party information sources, but nothing beats the networking and experiences you get from being in a classroom with like-minded peers. There's a bit more that goes into what I'm doing, but school has always been a challenge for me in multiple ways and my goal is to conquer those challenges the best I can this year especially. I know my worth, it's time to make it happen.
By Friday, I'd say I was pretty burned out for the week. I was very tired from every aspect and I knew from my attitude and how I felt physically and mentally I was having a really hard time getting into the moment or situation I'd be in. Usually I'm the guy laughing or making comments to keep peoples' spirits up in the stand but the co-workers who know me best definitely called me out and I'm very conscious of that. It definitely tends to happen when you wear your heart on your sleeve.
Going into this next week, I'll have classes signed up for Fall term, Destiny 2, which is the sequel to the original game and community that inspired me to stream copius amounts of time, is having a beta and a console launch in the span of two weeks which will keep me busy as there are features and content I need to cover to make my portfolio more solid and get ready for some minor technical stuff so I have a smooth gameplay experience on PC in particular in October when the PC launch goes live. There's a lot of stuff going on but when I'm building my personal schedule, I'm gonna make some time to meet family members so that I can just recharge, not worry about stuff, have a dinner and catch up. Different inputs and viewpoints on what I'm doing are always good. Despite what I'd say to them usually, (or not say, since I just listen when they tell me what's up) my parents are always a great resource for me to go to for a fresh perspective. I'm staying positive and I have a great support system via my community on Twitch/Discord but also my friends and family.
Some stuff I'm doing while scaling back the stream-times: Creating vids reporting on events in Overwatch, Destiny 2, and Player Unknowns Battlegrounds as well as making sure to take care of myself by doing something active at least every other day. It doesn't need to be perfect to start out, but doing SOMETHING is better than doing nothing. I always find that if I splurge too hard instead of creating some sort of set routine, it never really pans out. Hopefully it works out for me.
That's all the stuff on my mind so far! Now for the weeks stats:
Follower count: 12,078 (+27)
Days Streamed this last week: 5
Total Hours: 45.21
Average hours per day: 6.46
Follower count grew quickly when big-time streamers went to bed and I was live in the PUBG directory. I had a splurge happen from what I'm assuming was the new onboarding feature Twitch introduced where you are recommended as a Streamer for new viewers to watch. I took two days off after the 3 days I streamed in a row because I was basically exhausted from all the work I did. Total hours are solid and a bit more manageable, spreading it out into 3-6 hour streams per day instead of a few really insane streams might help quite a lot. Test out different time slots going forward with that. The hard part about Twitch is this concept about relevance. When people turn it on, you need to make it so you're the first person they think of checking out. Schedules help with that so people know when to expect you to be live. Another thing that helps grow communities and streams is giving people routes to converse with like-minded people outside of just Twitch chat. This blog, my Discord server, Twitter are my primary talking points since no one really uses Facebook comparatively. The amount of content available when Destiny 2 comes out will keep me busy for quite some time. My viewer-base is spread out among all platforms so making new characters on each platform keeps it interesting for me as well as giving people a chance to play and enjoy hanging out with the community and myself.
That's my thoughts. See you next week!
That's the problem, I was working. I had a set schedule for the first time in a long time, I planned out my entire week but I forgot the key component: me time. After I posted my first blog last week, I took a hard look at the time spent streaming and the time spent working and started thinking about what else I was doing to improve myself as a person and moving forward with a career. I don't like wasting time, but I couldn't help but feel that the 60 hours of streaming I did on top of the 30 hours of actual work at my job didn't return the profit I FEEL I deserve. I put an emphasis on feel, because maybe, just maybe, I haven't earned the right to earn the money I desire. However, part of me felt like I was letting the lack of return on time for revenue dictate my worth as a streamer and a person. That's not good. One thing I personally do to avoid that is have a day to myself where I go to lunch with a group or just a friend and we just hang out and chat, or I go on a hike. I didn't have any time this week to look at what I had done or what I am doing and make sure I was REALLY taking care of myself. That's a big goal for me to work on for the rest of the year. It also hit me like a freight train that I definitely will have to scale back streaming hours in preparation for school and classes coming back in the fall because until I have the job I want, I don't have anything to back it up as far as a degree that shows I know what I'm doing with all of the systems in place in today's Gaming/Entertainment industry. A lot of stuff you can learn via Youtube, and other third party information sources, but nothing beats the networking and experiences you get from being in a classroom with like-minded peers. There's a bit more that goes into what I'm doing, but school has always been a challenge for me in multiple ways and my goal is to conquer those challenges the best I can this year especially. I know my worth, it's time to make it happen.
By Friday, I'd say I was pretty burned out for the week. I was very tired from every aspect and I knew from my attitude and how I felt physically and mentally I was having a really hard time getting into the moment or situation I'd be in. Usually I'm the guy laughing or making comments to keep peoples' spirits up in the stand but the co-workers who know me best definitely called me out and I'm very conscious of that. It definitely tends to happen when you wear your heart on your sleeve.
Going into this next week, I'll have classes signed up for Fall term, Destiny 2, which is the sequel to the original game and community that inspired me to stream copius amounts of time, is having a beta and a console launch in the span of two weeks which will keep me busy as there are features and content I need to cover to make my portfolio more solid and get ready for some minor technical stuff so I have a smooth gameplay experience on PC in particular in October when the PC launch goes live. There's a lot of stuff going on but when I'm building my personal schedule, I'm gonna make some time to meet family members so that I can just recharge, not worry about stuff, have a dinner and catch up. Different inputs and viewpoints on what I'm doing are always good. Despite what I'd say to them usually, (or not say, since I just listen when they tell me what's up) my parents are always a great resource for me to go to for a fresh perspective. I'm staying positive and I have a great support system via my community on Twitch/Discord but also my friends and family.
Some stuff I'm doing while scaling back the stream-times: Creating vids reporting on events in Overwatch, Destiny 2, and Player Unknowns Battlegrounds as well as making sure to take care of myself by doing something active at least every other day. It doesn't need to be perfect to start out, but doing SOMETHING is better than doing nothing. I always find that if I splurge too hard instead of creating some sort of set routine, it never really pans out. Hopefully it works out for me.
That's all the stuff on my mind so far! Now for the weeks stats:
Follower count: 12,078 (+27)
Days Streamed this last week: 5
Total Hours: 45.21
Average hours per day: 6.46
Follower count grew quickly when big-time streamers went to bed and I was live in the PUBG directory. I had a splurge happen from what I'm assuming was the new onboarding feature Twitch introduced where you are recommended as a Streamer for new viewers to watch. I took two days off after the 3 days I streamed in a row because I was basically exhausted from all the work I did. Total hours are solid and a bit more manageable, spreading it out into 3-6 hour streams per day instead of a few really insane streams might help quite a lot. Test out different time slots going forward with that. The hard part about Twitch is this concept about relevance. When people turn it on, you need to make it so you're the first person they think of checking out. Schedules help with that so people know when to expect you to be live. Another thing that helps grow communities and streams is giving people routes to converse with like-minded people outside of just Twitch chat. This blog, my Discord server, Twitter are my primary talking points since no one really uses Facebook comparatively. The amount of content available when Destiny 2 comes out will keep me busy for quite some time. My viewer-base is spread out among all platforms so making new characters on each platform keeps it interesting for me as well as giving people a chance to play and enjoy hanging out with the community and myself.
That's my thoughts. See you next week!
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