Category: Streaming

  • YouTube and Twitch work continues

    Hello all – long time, no post.

    I’ve been heads’ down lately to focus on job hunting and my YouTube and Twitch stuff.

    First – the job hunt – it’s dismal. I don’t have a car, so I need a remote job. All jobs I find online are hybrid, or the ones that are actually remote – I’m not qualified for. (Think marketing requiring degrees, or sales requiring degrees and experience, or technical that requires certs and knowledge I do not have,) I keep looking every day or two, but it’s just disappointing. Every recruiter that contacts me based off of my profile on one of the sites also doesn’t get the remote part – so I’ve had to politely decline jobs in other cities or even other states because they have an in-office requirement. The search continues for that.

    Regarding local jobs – I’ve applied at all the places locally/within a mile, and it has been radio silence for months. Other than two, one told me I’m too qualified for the position that I applied for, the other hired someone else. I did follow up on a few, and I was told “No jobs yet, sorry.”

    Regarding streaming/posting videos/posting podcast type things – I’m working on it. My YouTube channel has almost 50 videos available now, with more being posted almost every day. My Twitch has a new video every weekday, sometimes on weekends, and those videos are being copied over to YouTube after 20 days. I’m finalizing a Discord Server, and should be ready to open the doors next week. I’m still working out how to manage posting notifications to social media sites.

    But the streaming and videos are not monetized yet, and once they do monetize it’ll take a while for them to cover anything. I have a Ko-Fi and a Patreon, but they’re pretty quiet right now.

    And the end of month is looming. More bills will be coming.

    So, yeah, I could complain more, but I think I’ll get back to work on everything. Maybe I can get some sort of income soon, and take all the responsibility off of my brother’s shoulders.

    If you’re reading this and can help, please check out my channels (or the separate website devoted to them – HalfAPoundOfPixels.com) and my Ko-Fi or Patreon. I would really appreciate it.

    I have big ideas, but continuing habitation in a place I have Internet is pretty bedrock-level important in my version of Maslow’s pyramid.

    Thanks for reading.

    Skåll!!!

  • I am now streaming and posting videos regularly

    I have finally gotten most things figured out for streaming on Twitch and posting videos on YouTube, and am posting/streaming regularly. Please check out the site https://halfapoundofpixels.com for more details regarding the types of games I’m recording, streaming, and my schedules.

    If you’re reading this, I have been job-hunting for a couple of months now and things are getting desperate. I have been fighting with unemployment for months, I have been exhausting my savings and reserves, and things are almost all gone. I have never asked for help publicly, mostly due to self esteem issues. Please check out the site above, watch a few of my videos, and Like, Follow, Subscribe if you can and wish to help out.

    I am continuing to look for employment via normal routes, and trying to stream/post videos – I really need help in gaining followers on both YouTube and Twitch so I can start earning through them.

    Thank you for reading.

    Skåll!!!

  • More is happening

    Well, I just did my first real Twitch stream in the wee hours of this morning. (I took a nap yesterday afternoon that barely stayed in the nap category, so I just wasn’t tired.)

    My main focus was getting audio and video confirmed working and good for viewers, but none of the expected alerts were running. So, that’s been my focus after I reviewed the VOD and confirmed no eyes or ears were bleeding.

    Ya don’t really think about it while you’re watching a stream, but when you’re setting one up there are eleventy bajillion alerts for different situations, (So-and-so just subscribed! So-and-so just cheered! So-and-so did a bajillion other things!) and then there are things to connect to other things and authorizations to authorize, and confirmations to confirm, and just, yeah.

    My brain resembles applesauce right now. And I don’t think that’s because I did the night-owl thing.

    I mean, I’m still working on a logo for banners and the website and stuff – so I don’t even have an official “Stream Starting” or “Stream Ended” screen yet.

    I’m not even sure I picked the Quirky Text-To-Speech voice that I like, but I picked one! And I do know it’s gotta be British English. Since I changed Siri to British English, I just can’t NOT select British English. If only for when it says “ma’am”. Or tries to pronounce American placenames based on an Algonquin or Iroquoian languages. Or reads aloud something NOT prim and proper.

    Okay, I better get back to it.

    An upcoming post will reveal why I’m doing all this, or just confirm it if you, dear reader, have already guessed why I’m doing all of this.

    Thanks for reading. Hope you day treats you well!

    Skåll!!!