This is not gonna be a fun one.
Hey everybody and welcome to this week’s
Naked Truth.
Trisha Hershberger here.
You can probably guess what this is
about from the title and thumbnail of this video but before we jump into that
topic I do want to thank everybody who wished me a happy birthday last
week.
You guys are all so sweet thank you so much you made me feel very
special on my birthday.
I’d also like to thank everyone who submitted their
own Naked Truth vlog last week.
That’s Kavaja, Colin, El Poyo,
Christopher, Ryan, Richard, Prescott & Kristen, Jayms and Lawrence.
If
you want to check out their Naked Truth vlogs they are linked in the
description below.
And yeah on to the topic of this video.
Some of you may
have heard this from Anthony Carboni or Steve Zaragoza already but
Comic-Con HQ has offically canceled both What’s News and Mostly
Harmless which is the shows we were working on for them.
So I’m officially
out of a job.
What’s News had a 32 episode run and that’s actually pretty
good for this industry so I’m very proud of a lot of the content we made and
I’m really grateful to have worked with all the people that we had worked
with.
Some really just amazing people who have had long wonderful
careers in this industry and will continue to have long careers in this
industry and sadly who are currently looking for new employment but that’s
kind of this business.
So I feel like this is the perfect time to address this
topic suggestion from Originalclasshole who I like your name who said
“Hey Trisha I have an idea for a topic.
Unemployment and how to keep
your head up while being unemployeed for an extended period of time.
I
don’t know if you have any experience on this subject but I just thought I
would share my idea.”
I thought this would be a great time to discuss that.
I
actually wanted to address this topic right after my contract with Escapist
had ended when they pretty much let go of 95% of their video production
team.
But at the time I was going through I was a lot more vulnerable I
should say and I didn’t know if I felt confident enough to talk about it in this
way.
The Naked Truth is a series where you know you let it all hang out
both metaphorically and nonmetaphorically.
And I just wasn’t ready to do
that then but I am dealing with it a little better this time around and so I
thought if what I have to say can help anybody in anyway then it’s totally
worth it and I think the hard thing when you lose your job is that you know
there’s a loss of self confidence like I mentioned theres a loss of
professional identity.
You know you go through a what am I doing with my
life is this what I’m meant to be doing with my life?
You lose your work
friends you don’t have financial stability and all of that could make it really
scary and so the things that I do to get through these times and what I will
continue to do right now is first of all I remember that crap happens it
happens to everybody.
In the business I’m in it especially happens all the
time I mean even if you’re on a show that’s running for 8 seasons even
after that you’re looking for work again at the end of that and you know
that’s just the way that it goes and life deals us hard to deal with times and I
just try to remember that I wouldn’t be given this situation to deal with if I
couldn’t handle it so I can handle it and it’s going to make me stronger
when I overcome it.
The other thing that I try to remember is to focus my
attention forward and not backwards.
So this is really an opportunity to do
something different and if you can think of things that way that’s awesome.
Like what was it about your last job that maybe you would have changed if
you could or you would have made better?
You know for me I loved making
the show What’s News.
I thought it was really different and really fun but it
was on a platform that not a lot of people could see whether it was
restricted in your region or for financial reasons you couldn’t watch it or I
was dumping my time and energy into something people couldn’t see so.
Maybe this is now going to open me up to ways more people could actually
see what I’m working on which is awesome.
When you’re thinking forward
and not back you’re thinking “What doors does this open?
When one door
closes in my experience a few more open and you want to keep looking at
those and get excited about what’s to come and try to make opportunities
for yourself.
I think it’s easy to wallow in it and think oh man I just need time
to hibernate this is horrible.
But if you can kind of push through that by
getting back on the horse and reaching out to people who are doing the
things you’re excited about and asking if you could help in anyway and
because you have this time to help offer your help to other people and that
may lead to a job opportunity and that may not lead to a job opportunity.
What ever it is that comes next for me I promise to keep you guys
infromed.
Anthony and Steve and I are joking around about starting a band.
I said it should be a death metal band.
So if that happens I’ll let you know.
But in the mean time that gives me a lot of time to really focus on this new
studio and this channel.
As I mentioned before I have a ton of tech review
videos.
I feel so behind in my tech review videos I want to make.
I have a
lot of cool products sitting here that I haven’t had a chance to tell you about
and I want to tell you about them.
Maybe doing some more formatting
shows on this channel or you know just trying new things.
Having friends
over for my streams and giving me the time to focus on that stuff is going to
be awesome plus I do have you can still find me on Geek & Sundry twice a
week on their Twix Channel on Mondays and Fridays and I do the tech
show DIY in 5 for Kingston so don’t worry I’m not at a total loss and I’m
keeping my head up and I do want to take this time to thank everyone who
checked out What’s News.
Whether you loved it hated it whatever if you
looked it over and gave me your feedback in anyway Twitter Facebook
Youtube comments right here on this channel whatever it is I appreciate
you and thank you for following my career thus far and hopefully onto the
next thing.
So my question for you guys is whenever you are in between
gigs or in between jobs how do you keep your head up?
What tips do you
have for everyone?
My tips just the tldr or the put together at the end
summary is to remember that crap happens and to look forwards not
backwards.
So yeah let me know your tips in the comments below or in a
Naked Truth Vlog of your very own.
And yeah I have a fun gaming video
going up for you guys this week and I have figured out what I’m going to do
for the dragon so hopefully that’ll be here by next week.
Maybe give me
some colors maybe make it look a little different?
I don’t know we’ll see
surpises all around.
But thank you guys so much for watching and I’ll see
you soon.