{"id":601,"date":"2021-10-12T21:48:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T04:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=601"},"modified":"2021-10-12T21:48:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T04:48:53","slug":"not-as-easy-as-i-had-hoped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Not As Easy as I had hoped."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1030\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ABP3083_Blog_Size-1030x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ABP3083_Blog_Size-1030x688.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ABP3083_Blog_Size-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ABP3083_Blog_Size-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ABP3083_Blog_Size-705x471.jpg 705w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ABP3083_Blog_Size.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><figcaption>The raw building material.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But about as easy as I expected &#8211; namely not easy at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a side-hustle, trying to exploit all my hard-won knowledge surrounding cooking, baking, making YouTube videos&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cook every day. I bake&#8230; Rarely&#8230; I make YouTube videos even more infrequently but that is more because of the astonishing amount of work that goes into producing an even half-good video rather than my inability to get things shipped out the door. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The side hustle is a series of videos on making gingerbread houses and selling templates for the houses. I don&#8217;t plan on making much money from it, but I do want to learn more about e-commerce, sales, production, that sort of thing. Photography hasn&#8217;t been that busy recently and I wanted to fill in the cracks with something a little different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I won&#8217;t be set up for this Christmas, but that&#8217;s ok. I can only move so quickly on this project and I certainly don&#8217;t want to make too many (expensive, time consuming mistakes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I have made a few mistakes. It hasn&#8217;t been easy, this project. Harder than I expected, actually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Editing video, especially if you&#8217;re not very good at it, takes a long time.<\/li><li>Being a perfectionist also slows one down, somewhat<\/li><li>Learning as you go isn&#8217;t too bad unless there is a camera rolling and you say one thing and then quickly learn that it isn&#8217;t quite what you thought.<\/li><li>YouTube puts videos without any context or help at the absolute bottom of the heap. <\/li><li>There is a lot to learn, a lot to do and a lot to re-do and re-do yet again until it works, somewhat. <\/li><li>And there is a lot more to go. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I was wondering this afternoon if it was all worthwhile. I have no idea, but so far it has been interesting, if nothing else. For now I&#8217;ll keep going.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But about as easy as I expected &#8211; namely not easy at all. 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