Tag: career building

A Walk in the Clouds.

How do you celebrate holidays?

I live in a city which is urban and people mostly come here to work and build a career.

On holidays, they all go back to their native places. The city will look completely deserted during the break.

I cherish the look of the empty city and relish a walk in the middle of road. I call it ‘a walk in the clouds’.

Birds don’t pose for photos! You need patience!

Take a look at the picture.

What you have seen isn’t just a photo of a bird. It’s a poem. How?

A bird diving 30 miles an hour into clean and still water to meet his twin brother. Without a splash of water wasted. 

This amazing photograph was captured by a fisherman-turned-wildlife photographer called Alan McFadyen. He lives in Scotland and is now running a wildlife photography business.

This photo wasn’t taken in a day. A painstaking effort went behind creating this masterpiece.

McFadyen took six long years. 4200 hours in total. He travelled every day, many miles, seven days a week to the same spot, River Tarff woodland. 

He would skip breakfast and miss his dates (missed many girls in the bargain). All for the love of wildlife photography. 

He got his first camera – a Nikon D4 – in 2009 and that kicked the adrenaline in him. 

He would cycle to the spot daily, set up the porch at vantage points with camouflage (birds don’t pose for photos) and click, click and click. Hours would be gone. 

He clicked 600 shots a day. A whopping 720,000 clicks in all. 

Patience paid him. 

And the passion for photography shouldn’t be any less. This is an adventure sport. Only a superhuman effort could win laurels.

It cost McFadyen his relationships. He was engaged five times. Twice divorced. 

He was six when he first fell in love with nature. His grandfather was his inspiration, as the lad was taken around on a bicycle every day to see those bird’s nests. 

That was how his love of nature kick-started and his passion for wildlife photography. 

McFadyen dedicated this one helluva masterpiece to the memory of his granddad. 

Man is man-made!

Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

I’ve always taken my own decisions in life. Pursued a career, chased my dreams and built a personality, all self-made. 

DIY was how I honed my entrepreneurial skills. 

My pen has been my companion, all through. 

Writing is how I speak and express my thoughts. Sharp and witty!

 

A job that fetches $200,000 (₹1.65 crore) a year. Work only five hours a day! How?

Threads don’t work. Images don’t work. You need a very tight, expertly crafted 280-character take, said a ghost-writer who made $200,000 (₹1.64 crores approximately) writing tweets to Venture Capitalists, anonymous.

And that is not his day job. He works only five hours on a side hustle.

Wow! How?

Social media nowadays are abuzz with products appearing up front ‘bold and beautiful’ and a real-life seller who’s mostly unseen sits on the other side. All anonymous!

Anonymity on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), guarantees a lucrative business now. All you should do is write a crisp 280-character tweet. And that’s it.

The tweets by an agreement pay the writer per tweet and some per month. The writer claims he was paid $100,000 for an original thread. Through thread, they announce big funding rounds.

That begs the question: Why do tweets cost a fortune?

The ghost-writer explains that funding on social media has changed.

Platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) have become the new landscape for funders and founders. They choose to visit these microblog sites for building a relationship and thereby grab the attention of the wider audience.

Funding now is no longer a one-to-one format, the ghost-writer says.

It’s a one-to-many format. You’re actually broadcasting to wider accounts. In one go!

While the writer is spending only a few hours, he says one should exercise a greater discipline with words.

His gospel: clarity, intention, and being concise.

And it doesn’t stop there.

It’s not just about a razor-sharp perfect tweet. It’s about understanding the nuance of the platform and who is engaging with a given account, what he calls; ‘being in on the joke’.

The writer attributes most of his success to understanding the intricacies of social media and how that helps build a relationship between funders and founders.

He says further that about 60% of the tweets he writes are “shit-posting” — meaning, the stuff you post when there’s nothing to post.

He says that “shit-posting” is the key to gaining attention and following. So much so that when there’s something real to post, you already have an audience. Clever job!

The writer is too strict. He delves on keeping boundaries, and told (an insider) that he’s had to fire clients before, as he doesn’t want his hustle-job to “take up too much space.”

Does he have an office?

No, he carries a laptop, a second phone, and a dedicated email address. And that’s all.

₹1.5 crore a year is no small money. And you work only five hours a day. Bindaas!

Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com