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Quesadilla
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1814 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-30 21:13:30
April 29 2013 03:08 GMT
#1
A lot of people say, “That’s the craziest thing I’ve ever done”. We usually hear that and subsequently rate their claims based on our own experiences, deciding just how “crazy” it really was. Though I just attempted to debase such a statement, I confidently come to you and say that I had the craziest week of my life back in February. I thought it could never get crazier than that, but just last week, it did again... Let me start from the top.

Millennia have carved each portion of this planet into something unique whether geographical or cultural. It is all seamless. We are all human. No matter how hard we try to justify our differences, it will never be feasible to distance ourselves completely from another. Many people make excuses to isolate their culture from others, but we all have something in common. I’ve been passionate about our common bonds as people and have found that “networking” shouldn’t be a learned skill but rather an essential component of living. I’ve been fortunate enough to have previously traveled a bit and lived in Seoul, South Korea. Part of that fortune was a changed mind about cultures and I’ve been compelled to share it since.

Back in February, I was working at a creative digital advertising agency in Irvine, California. At digital agencies you work on amazing projects for big clients and form ideas from scratch. You wear what you want. You are trusted with responsibility, matters of performance and you are credited for artistic ingenuity, business savvy, and aggression at the ping-pong table. It is all things slick with promise of long-term benefit and status. However, completely out of the blue, a high school friend of mine contacted me and proposed I leave the agency, on a whim, to travel Earth and tell people’s untold stories.

What?

It hit me like a ton of bricks. Yeah, with a month or even a couple weeks of deliberation, the decision might come more easily. Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 was the Super Bowl, but for me, it was an ultimatum. By midnight I had to decide whether or not to quit my great job with a single week’s notice, still work 40 hours, cancel utilities, forward my address, find a place to store my car, drop a bomb on my roommate, pack my whole apartment into storage and sign up for 150+ hours in planes …in 5 days. The results came in: that week removed my behind and dropkicked it repeatedly, Nonetheless, with the help of my family and friends, I was then on a 16-hour flight to Dubai with the next 3.5 months of my life on a plan to see 12 countries (10 of which were new to me) across 6 continents. I would meet people with inspiring stories who were changing the game in their cities. The daily journey and behind the scenes were up to me; I was now the social media manager for an international travel show sponsored by Google.

Yes, we have an app for everything, we can drag up to refresh, and most importantly: follow one another. Even so, there is much we’re missing out on. Social media has flooded our mental cache with fleeting tidbits but seldom does it spur us into action, emotion or personal experience. Instead of a reality where everyone talks at each other, who tells good stories anymore? Now that even my mom has a Samsung Galaxy S3 and posts pictures to Instagram, things have changed. There is value in followership and value in producing content from scratch. Who will go off the beaten path to not only have fun with their own life but make a legion of people die to come along on the journey? This was my new job description, and I ran with it. 10 countries later, 90 videos shot and edited myself, and 100,000+ aggregate followers gained across channels, I finally reached a place of feeling some solace about my value in this position.

Well, remember how I said things got even crazier? Along the way, I saw a post about “The Best Jobs in the World” for Tourism Australia. One of them was a social media management position they were calling the “Chief Funster”. $100,000 worth of salary + expenses, going to festivals and tourism events full-time and telling the stories was a vacant? I laughed out loud as I couldn’t believe something might be even cooler than what I was already doing. The application was to make a 30-second video, that’s it. I still have no idea what’s next after this TV show and decided, “why not,” and made a quick video. I threw my hat into the ring. I thought I’d have decent chances, but after the deadline, news stories began coming out that over 600,000 people applied for these 6 jobs. Immediately dropped my chances out of the window and made it a distant possibility in my mind.

To my disbelief, I got an email last week congratulating me for making the top 25 for Chief Funster. I couldn’t believe it. As excited as I was and as fun as I should feel, I began to feel very serious. What followed is where I’m currently at––and it’s hard… It’s really hard. It’s not about me anymore, but it’s about whether or not people believe in me. This part of the race for the job requires each of the candidates to find people that believe they’re the right person for this spot and get them to vocalize it. One part is finding high profile advocacy, the other is advocacy from the public.

We all have a certain amount of credit to spend with our relationships. Once it’s spent, it can become difficult to ask for help from those people ever again. I knew once I said yes, I would have to spend that credit, potentially not having any left if I lost this race. I’ve turned to family, friends, and the people I’ve known the longest and I can only ask for their help. This is a reason why I turn to TeamLiquid, who I’ve been with for a while. This dream will escape if I don’t try, and I think that would be harder to live with than failure, so I’m all in. I’m not old enough to be wise, but I think this is what life is all about.

If you’ve gotten this far in this blog, all I could ask is for you to consider letting Tourism Australia know someone believes I’m right for this job. Personally, I really do think I’m right and hopefully you can see that in my delivery. I’d love for this to be a victory for not only myself, but for everybody that’s invested in me. In every waking moment I have outside of making this travel show a success, I’m pushing to be New South Wales’ next social media man, even if that means making fun of myself, coming up with content in airports and editing for 10 hours on flights where everyone else is asleep. I don’t have the luxury of free-time like many other candidates do, but I’m sure as hell going to keep up (as I write from a moving bus in Argentina streaming data from my phone on roaming). Please consider me for the job. I won’t let anyone down if I get it.

Cheers.



EDIT: Just took this video yesterday




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Make a lot of friends. Wear good clothes. Drink good beer. Love a nice girl.
MysteryMeat1
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States3292 Posts
April 29 2013 06:55 GMT
#2
so do we need to e-mail them or something to let them know your the best person for the job?
"Cause ya know, Style before victory." -The greatest mafia player alive
Capped
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom7236 Posts
April 29 2013 08:12 GMT
#3
So. The whole blog is you advertising for us to petition for your job.
Useless wet fish.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
April 29 2013 08:27 GMT
#4
You'll rock 'em.
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
LeapofFaith
Profile Joined November 2011
United States446 Posts
April 29 2013 08:45 GMT
#5
Wow, this is super cool. Good luck!
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
April 29 2013 08:52 GMT
#6
What I got from this is your "korea (south)" location thingy is bullshit

WHY THE LIES?
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
April 29 2013 12:50 GMT
#7
it's where his heart lies.
why so 진지해?
Enderbantoo
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States465 Posts
April 29 2013 12:55 GMT
#8
On April 29 2013 21:50 Rekrul wrote:
it's where his heart lies.

damn....
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Ghin
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States2391 Posts
April 29 2013 13:36 GMT
#9
I don't know anyone helpful, but I will use my psychic powers to help you get the job.
Legalize drugs and murder.
Quesadilla
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1814 Posts
April 29 2013 14:12 GMT
#10
On April 29 2013 17:12 Capped wrote:
So. The whole blog is you advertising for us to petition for your job.


TL is a community I've been a part of for nearly 8 years that I've made countless friends from––ones I talk with and see on a regular basis––should I not reach out here because of you? Friends like Kennegit, Heyoka, Day[9], Rekrul, Boesthius etc. etc. actually believe in me. I need help, and I can turn to TL if I need help just like countless others have in the past. Hopefully you'll find the same confidence in this place some day.

On April 29 2013 17:27 heyoka wrote:
You'll rock 'em.


<3 I love you. MLG?

On April 29 2013 17:52 iNcontroL wrote:
What I got from this is your "korea (south)" location thingy is bullshit

WHY THE LIES?


Don't sling me too much shit man, we all voted for Anna in the past (myself included). And, I lived there, was also just there a couple weeks raging w/ Giyom & Wolf. I think Rekrul said it best:

On April 29 2013 21:50 Rekrul wrote:
it's where his heart lies.



On April 29 2013 15:55 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
so do we need to e-mail them or something to let them know your the best person for the job?

I put 3 different ways anybody can help in the 1st video at the bottom! I have some endorsements & PR things coming, but people just using the hashtag on any of Australia's social media is huge. Here are their URL's:

1) Facebook #PickAndrew 2) Twitter #PickAndrew 3) Instagram #PickAndrew

On April 29 2013 22:36 Ghin wrote:
I don't know anyone helpful, but I will use my psychic powers to help you get the job.


Sounds good!
Make a lot of friends. Wear good clothes. Drink good beer. Love a nice girl.
Psychonian
Profile Joined March 2012
United States2322 Posts
April 29 2013 16:46 GMT
#11
Interesting.....
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FuDDx *
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States5008 Posts
April 29 2013 17:34 GMT
#12
A Funster .....


Damn ....Fudd the Funster.....

Where is my video crew ...

Gl man
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Balloon-Man-FuDD/237447769616965?ref=hl
Quesadilla
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1814 Posts
April 29 2013 17:57 GMT
#13
On April 30 2013 02:34 FuDDx wrote:
A Funster .....


Damn ....Fudd the Funster.....

Where is my video crew ...

Gl man


You are definitely high on the list of funsters. Have you attempted making the Up house yet and floating to Australia?
Make a lot of friends. Wear good clothes. Drink good beer. Love a nice girl.
llIH
Profile Joined June 2011
Norway2143 Posts
April 29 2013 18:57 GMT
#14
Good luck!
Wolf
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)3290 Posts
April 29 2013 19:32 GMT
#15
gl dude
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Iyerbeth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
England2410 Posts
April 29 2013 20:33 GMT
#16
On April 29 2013 12:08 Quesadilla wrote:
We usually hear that and subsequently rate their claims based on our own experiences, deciding just how “crazy” it really was.


Seriously? That'd be like someone saying 'at the end of the day' and me stopping them to be like "Excuse me sir, I'm going to need a time reference before I can properly determine that." That said, I hate those kinda stupid phrases, so some part of me wants that to be the case so such phrases vanish from use.

At any rate, I hope this works out for you, was a really interesting story.
♥ Liquid`Sheth ♥ Liquid`TLO ♥
Quesadilla
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1814 Posts
April 29 2013 20:38 GMT
#17
On April 30 2013 05:33 Iyerbeth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2013 12:08 Quesadilla wrote:
We usually hear that and subsequently rate their claims based on our own experiences, deciding just how “crazy” it really was.


Seriously? That'd be like someone saying 'at the end of the day' and me stopping them to be like "Excuse me sir, I'm going to need a time reference before I can properly determine that." That said, I hate those kinda stupid phrases, so some part of me wants that to be the case so such phrases vanish from use.

At any rate, I hope this works out for you, was a really interesting story.


Haha, I feel you. What I meant is that each person always thinks their own stories are the craziest, their own pains hurt the most, etc. I'm guilty of doing that but was making the point that I could confidently call the week that I cancelled everything and moved out of the country in 5 days "crazy", as cliché as it sounded.
Make a lot of friends. Wear good clothes. Drink good beer. Love a nice girl.
Iyerbeth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
England2410 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-29 20:44:22
April 29 2013 20:42 GMT
#18
On April 30 2013 05:38 Quesadilla wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2013 05:33 Iyerbeth wrote:
On April 29 2013 12:08 Quesadilla wrote:
We usually hear that and subsequently rate their claims based on our own experiences, deciding just how “crazy” it really was.


Seriously? That'd be like someone saying 'at the end of the day' and me stopping them to be like "Excuse me sir, I'm going to need a time reference before I can properly determine that." That said, I hate those kinda stupid phrases, so some part of me wants that to be the case so such phrases vanish from use.

At any rate, I hope this works out for you, was a really interesting story.


Haha, I feel you. What I meant is that each person always thinks their own stories are the craziest, their own pains hurt the most, etc. I'm guilty of doing that but was making the point that I could confidently call the week that I cancelled everything and moved out of the country in 5 days "crazy", as cliché as it sounded.


That's fair, your usage of the term was certainly not cliché. Definately crazier than anything I've ever done or am likely to ever do, lol.
♥ Liquid`Sheth ♥ Liquid`TLO ♥
intrigue
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Washington, D.C9933 Posts
April 30 2013 00:59 GMT
#19
done, gl
you look a lot diff damn
Moderatorhttps://soundcloud.com/castlesmusic/sets/oak
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
April 30 2013 03:29 GMT
#20
I went on twitter for you, much love Queso .
User was warned for too many mimes.
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