Fear = False Evidence Appearing Real
Its so powerful, tangible, physical. I hate it, its nonsense, it feels like it wins and I lose.
I briefly had a video production business started in 2008 just before economic downturn. I made more in a few weekends (~$10k) than I was making at my well-paid 9-5 corp job, so I quit. And then, the econ crashed and so did my baby biz.
During my biz months, I shot & edited 2 commercials, a music video, and a coach training event. My fees were reasonable. I hired 1-2 people for each gig, and they were paid well enough.
For two of those gigs, there were hiccups.
One commercial the producer tried to change my pay. We fought, and I still had the footage, so she paid my pre-negotiated rate. That was unfortunate because she and I had been acquaintances for a long time before that, & I never understood why she tried to do that, but that ended that. (She also later dropped off the map & later re-emerged in a different state, so who knows?)
For coaching seminar, my editor friend got me the gig, and I was to give her the unedited footage to cut. Customer changed her mind and wanted the raw footage, so I gave her my footage when I got paid -- but I explained it needed pro editing to look & sound great.
She was very disappointed when looking at the raw footage, which was unfortunate -- but clients should never look at raw footage, but instead can preview edited rough clips.
So now I want to do it again, but this time with different focus -- I am not making videos, I want to make things we haven't seen before. 😁
