I am a Field Engineer for a semiconductor company in Oregon. I work graveyard shift for 15% more pay, which makes a huge difference to my income.
Most nights we take a 3 hour lunch. Sometimes, if there is nothing to do, I can have a multitude of hours of boredom.
I want to start using my time more wisely rather than relaxing doing nothing. I already started up going back to college because my company reimbursement for tuition is a sweet deal so it's essentially a free ride but just want to do online courses to get my AA then transfer. In person is pretty awful now with all these woke faggots.
But I want to come up with a business plan possibly, create a company, maybe write a movie as I've always wanted to be a director but that may not be an option with where AI is going.
I just have so much free time during some breaks that I want to earn extra income or ultimately have a business to no longer work for someone else but be self employed.
I expect the usual comments that you all will deliver, ready to laugh at the responses but hopefully have some good insight.
Ignore the suggestions on using AI, it's just a propaganda machine that will give you terrible self destructive advice and anyone that hasn't figured that out is too retarded to take advice from.
I want to make a movie.
If you're hoping it will be a creative stress reliver, don't. Making a movie, even one that will only show up on a video sharing sign, is a fairly difficult process that requires at a minimum dozens to thousands of hours staring at video and audio editing software depending on length. This is if you're the only voice actor/actor/filmmaker. It gets far harder the more people you include. The other issue is why are you making it? The odds it will make you money is pretty low, and given it's just a form of entertainment, it won't be useful to you or anyone you care about long term. I guess you could make a documentary for with useful information, but then it wouldn't be a movie.
I want to make a business
I don't know all your skills or all your interests so I can only give general advice. Look at what is missing from your life, necessities first. There's a lot missing since we're both in Oregon and everything is fucked in Oregon more so than other places. Once you have a list of both short term and long term things you need, look at your skills to see which are compatible. Once you have that list look at what actually interests you. Once you have something that you need, that you're skilled in, and that you are interested in focus on making a business around it. The easiest way to do that is to see what businesses in that field already exist, and having a talk with their founders. Depending on where the business is, and who is running it, they may intentionally give you bad advice to avoid competition, so the best people to ask are those who are retired and do not have family working in the businesses they started.
Hope this helps and sorry for beating on your dreams, but movies should have never existed.
s23erdctfvyg 0 points 1 day ago
Ignore the suggestions on using AI, it's just a propaganda machine that will give you terrible self destructive advice and anyone that hasn't figured that out is too retarded to take advice from.
The other issue is why are you making it? The odds it will make you money is pretty low, and given it's just a form of entertainment, it won't be useful to you or anyone you care about long term. I guess you could make a documentary for with useful information, but then it wouldn't be a movie.
Look at what is missing from your life, necessities first. There's a lot missing since we're both in Oregon and everything is fucked in Oregon more so than other places.
Once you have a list of both short term and long term things you need, look at your skills to see which are compatible. Once you have that list look at what actually interests you.
Once you have something that you need, that you're skilled in, and that you are interested in focus on making a business around it. The easiest way to do that is to see what businesses in that field already exist, and having a talk with their founders. Depending on where the business is, and who is running it, they may intentionally give you bad advice to avoid competition, so the best people to ask are those who are retired and do not have family working in the businesses they started.
Hope this helps and sorry for beating on your dreams, but movies should have never existed.