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Making a career choice…
…for ages i’ve been looking at learning to scuba dive, by ages i mean just over a year. When i originally thought about it, diving was just a idea, abit gimmiky and was kind of a fad thought. My work hours were in the way of when my local scuba diving club runs, i had the opportunity to change my hours and i let it pass me by. But this amount of time on and i still want to do it. I’m glad i didn’t change my hours (thursdays hours added to my saturdays hours, making one huge shift) when i initially thought about it, as after researching it again i realise i’d have missed out on trips of a weekend to stoney cove. I’d resent that massive saturday shift for getting in my way and for being a massive boring saturday shift staring at customers. Ok i’d probably have a qualification by now but oh well. And for the past few months i had be struggling to see where my film qualification was going, in my final year i am really questioning what happens next? am i going to get a job? am i going to be stuck at sainsburys for the rest of my life? And then i realised where my problem was, i was looking at lots of uni grads who had specialised; vfx/ editing/ cinematographer etc etc, my course doesn’t really offer the opportunity to specialize it is truly what ever you make of it, it really sets you up for going solo freelance.
So heres my idea, underwater camera opp, it may be very specialised but who cares… someones got to aim for it. and even if it doesn’t work out like that i can still keep my feet dry and film, just i’ll have a extra skill!
Bring on the 30min drive to the next town because work gets in the way!
