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What’s your dream job?

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I wanted to be a television weatherman, a game show host, or have a comedy club–when I was young watching black and white television in the sixties. Google has made this possible whereby anyone can start their own YouTube channel. I remember how I yearned for a camcorder, but couldn’t afford one. Now, with our iPhone, we can create content videos on our own free Google website at YouTube. I admire the tarot readers and astrologers who have a large subscriber base and receive the YouTube plaque for having passed a viewership milestone. My latest favorite is Ryan Hall Y’all who showed me a month in advance of the storms to hit San Francisco and the whole state of California.

Now that I am retired and don’t have a twelve hour block in the day or evening taken up by my job, I have the most precious resource: free time. No more RDO (Regular Day Off) on weekends, no more OT to make up for spending on a new toy. The world is my oyster. To be young and in my twenties now, wow, you guys don’t know how lucky you are.

So, the above question prompt by Word Press is definitely catching fire. I can blog about the interstates, like Beaver Geography, put on high vibe music like David Palmer, or put my Brain side of pinky in the brain in over-analyzing anything!

But we do have to be careful on our vulnerable personal side. We are putting out our views to everybody. Just like when I started advertising on Facebook, it may only take one person’s mean-spirited comment to strike deep into the heart. I was trying to pitch the really cool electric pen for using a piezoelectric prick for soothing a crick in the neck, and an old curmudgeon from Vancouver said it was worthless. How could I respond? This was when I learned the art of not responding. Politicians do this all the time. The other thing I just learned was how to disable a feedback review on my book on Amazon. Someone wrote, “Total garbage. He thinks driving a bus in beneath him.” I hit the report button, and Amazon removed it. But that comment had been visible for over two months.

One thing anyone who has a big following on YouTube or Facebook or wherever, is that you do need to keep checking your links, and scrolling through all your pages. Links break, comments can be harmful, or destroy any future passive subscribers or sales.

I flirted with an astrologer about her vacuum tracks on the couch behind her desk as she was blogging on YouTube, and even though I was sincere about loving vacuum tracks on carpet and upholstery, it had nothing to do with her great YouTube posts, yet I feel it may have affected her in a way that might have made her feel vulnerable.

I laughed so hard when I saw on her next video that the couch had been cleaned, but the vacuum tracks were blurred out and gone. She must have read my comment about loving her vacuum tracks. This comment is not really negative, and is in these types of comments we have to ignore and let go. If we want success and the YouTube plaque, it means some crap will come our way.

In a way, my public service as a bus driver in a busy city did give me the tough skin I needed to keep the skin in the game!