After a year of struggling, working, and living quietly impoverished. I have had a chance to look back and see what I have accomplished in order to either become employed in the near future or remain in a jobless future. Also after reviewing the list of odd jobs, and saying yes to everything that came my way, I still have no idea of what I’m supposed to be doing and where I’m supposed to be. One would think that after a year of doing a lot or random things that this would be simple to figure out, and that I would have more certainty in my life. However it has created more uncertainty in my life than ever before. I guess knowing what I know now to what I knew a year ago, I have grown by leaps and bounds, and my mantra of “be cool Yvonne, be cool” has kept me content with where I‘m at. So here is the list of odd jobs and projects completed last year in chronological order:
Son Image Conference – Where I read my paper on Jean Luc Godard to academics from around the world.
Film Camp – best one yet
Queer City Cinema – Data Entry
Camera person for FNUniv Young Entrepreneur Camp
One Take Super 8 Event – created a 3 minute animation
Writing a Splice Article
Getting advertising for Splice Magazine
A course on Scriptwriting with David Gane
Photo Workshop with Scott Collegiate
Building Bridges Music video Shoot – With Payepot School
Radio Wiilwaal – 9 short clips
Camera Assistant for berny hi’s “Veronique a Velo” Film
Regina Open Door Society – Note taker at an Immigration Settlement Conference Regina Open Door – creating a Report from the conference
Radio Wiilwaal – 4 video clips
Santa Photo’s at Northgate Mall
“Je Reve de Paris” Film Screening at the “Godard Project”
Editor on Regena Marler’s Video “This Museum Called Home “
UNESCO – “Do you see what I think” video project
Radio Wiilwaal – “How to date a white woman” short film
The Visual Story course with Chrystene Ells
Arts Smarts Grant with Wascana Community School
I believe that these are all the projects I said yes to from June 2010 to June 2011. Some were profitable, some were out of necessity, but all were educational and helped me gain a huge amount of knowledge. Of all the things I learned this year the best and biggest lesson I learned was that, I may not know what I’m supposed to be when I grow up, but everything I do is leading towards my own success. It is totally alright to not know what I’m supposed to do with my life. I just keep trusting that everything will land in the right place at the right time, and all I have to do is say yes to it. Maybe one day I’ll have a full time job that pays well, and maybe I‘m destined for something else. Until then I’m just gonna “be cool, Yvonne, be cool” and continue saying yes until the perfect something comes my way.
