Thirty Day Posting Challenge and Owning your Work!

Be you!

I set a 30 day posting challenge for the month of October. I've been making videos for TikTok, IG Reels and YouTube Shorts. (Screen shot of IG/TikTok).

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Gotta get the reps in ya know! Like anything running (get the Km's in), Lifting (progressive overload), Language skills (a few new words per day), Friendship (a call or hangout every once and a while). Everything must be practiced!

It's been a pretty fun job so far, but a job is a job.
Sure this little hobby doesn't get much pay right now but we're still in the building phase!

But at the end of the day I'm just pretty happy that I own all the work I make. No matter how little traction it receives or the metrics, I own 100% of my work. Not everybody can say that.

But let's look at the different scenarios.

Let's say I work and make videos for a major publication like National Geographic, New York Times, Bon Appetite or even Vice.

Yeah, sure they'll afford me some great opportunities in the short term (like a small salary) but you'll be incredibly overworked and undervalued.
But you don't own your photos, videos, interviews, blog posts and articles. Long term the organization can repurpose all of your work and make cash on that.

A cautionary tale, Called the rule of 22.

22 Years old, Pay them $22,000, and work them for 22 hours a day.

Just think about Peter Parker in Spider Man, He is a freelance photographer but sells off his photos for cheap to a major publication (the Daily Bugle).

Basically these companies will see a "greenhorn" and take full advantage of the emerging talent because they naive and don't understand how much value they are creating for the company.

While these mega-corporations upper management executives are reaping in a large salaries based off of the work of these entry level journalists, analysts, and workers.

Then years later after the artist realizes that they don't own any of their work they then to have some backlash at these organizations. Like Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Prince, Michael Jackson, etc. The list goes on and on.

There are countless stories of musical artists, journalists, and creators just fighting off these mega corporations because they don't own their masters, albums, and various Intellectual Property (videos, songs, etc).

These creatives then usually have a resentment of the companies they worked for and eventually break off and some start their own record labels or own ventures.

Owning your work is probably the most important thing. That is the thing that allows one to make money while one sleeps, reoccurring revenue.

Make it once and that art, video or song can be bought, watched, listened to or consumed at any time of the day to any part of the world.

I mean it's really cool to gain experience, learn skills, make new friends at organizations. But when it's done...it's done. Employees are expendable at an organization, you can be replaced by AI, cheaper foreign labor, or just a company downsizing.

We're meant to evolve and grow!

When you're done at that organization, let it go. Try something else, build your thing, own your work!

Be you!

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