A bwyd yw'n oedd fel y fydd yw bwysig mewn amddangos chi'n gynhyrchu'r ystyried. Wrth hyn, os gallwch eu cyfrif Kiaw'r ddaeol a'r numbera gwaith llevartigig o'r honnod o ddweud arill, a'r ddweudio cymdeithas hynny'n gyfyrdd i gyd.  Fel nifor, mae'n ddweud i ddim yn ddim yn y spadorol i'u swydd cyffredinol a'r ers wych i ddim ni'n astudio dsystem widtha oherwydd ei wneud nhw'n gobyn. Mae'n ddweud i ddim wedi bod i weithio ddim yn dweud ei wneud yn oed, dwi'n rhan fafaiddio oed. Diolch yn ddilemddiad yma ghaerfforddau am oed yn mynd i ddim yn cael ei dweud. Rwy'n credu oma chi'n cael ei hwnnw yng Nghymru. Don't have to know the ins and outs of what the company do, but look at their careers site, look at their social media posts, you could even research the person if you know who's going to be interviewing you. That preparation is really key. Look at the company website. Look up who ever's interviewing you. Read news articles about either the company, or the department, or the industry that you're going to be working in. y gallwch ei wneud bod yn ddigonol y gallwn i gweithio ar y teimlo A dyfodol, cyfieithi! If you can practice for an interview even though it feels silly at a kitchen table across from your parents you will feel a lot calmer when some of those questions do pop up in a room and you feel under pressure How you should prepare specifically for zero I would personally recommend making sure that you understand what our values are We have five of them I'll let you go look those up yourself felly nid i ddim yn ymweld fanyl ychydig i'r farchaeth i ddeallu'r farchaeth. a ei wneud â'r farchaeth, maen nhw'n gweithio eich bod hynny'n ei wash yn y rhan oedd, bood ydyno'n mynd i gyrfa ni'n mewn farchaeth, dwi'n creu i chi yw i erioed i'r gweithio a chi oedd yn dda'r argyffaith. Os yma'r gweithgol ni wedi'i gydag ym enwedig mewn pwynt ynhaewn. pan ydych chi i chi'n ffordd i gyda'r cymryd a gweithio gweithio'r company, gweithio'r cyfnodd o'r cyfnodd, ac yn cyd-dweithio'r cyd-dweithio'r cyfnodd a'r cyfnodd a'r cyfnodd. Wrth g�ryd ar y cyfeirio'r cyfeirio. Wrth g�ryd ar y cyfnodd, ac ar y cyfnodd ar y cyfnodd, yn ôl ei wneud yn cael ei wneud i chi'n meddwl i'ch gweithio'ch cyfnodd. ac gan gweithio ddechrau ddweud ddweud rhywbeth a ddweud o ddweud ddweud ddweud o ddweud o'r ddweud. Mae'r ddweud o ddweud ymddangos yn y tîn. Yn yn ddweud o'ch ddweud yma, am wneud i fynd i chi'n gweithio i'r ddweud a nhw'n ddweud i chi'n ddechrau i'ch ddweud.  We're looking for a story, so again what, how and why or perhaps you can use a star form art you might've heard before. Situations, task, action, result. Don't forget that this is your one big chance to shine and sell yourself so you should always include as much detail as possible a'n dda i'r rhaglen i'r llai i gael a'i gael yma i chi i gael eich bod yn rhaid i'r un iawn. Rwy'n ddim yn ymweld i'r cwestiwn i'r cwestiwn, ond y gallwn yn ymddun i'r cwestiynau a'r un i'r ddigonion yn yma. Byddwn i'n ymddun i'r cwestiynau a'r gael i'r cwestiynau, ac mae'n credu'n ymddun i gael. Mae'n bod yn ei wneud o'r tuig llwy yn y cwestiynau i'r cwestiynau i'r gael, Felly dyna'r cwrs o'n dweud ar hyn o'n mwyaf i'monio'n gwyfaddig arniol iawn, ac yn credu i'n ddim yn fwy Pleidigol ar gyfer y dyfodol ymlaen ymlaen, am ddiddordebol iawn ar gyfer felly wasanaeth y cyfnodau sy'n erniad o'n ddiddor i chi ymweld yr aelodol i chi'n iddi gael i'n gallu pwysig eu clerwch na yw'r yw'r prif. Felly yn y mosquitoes cwestiwn ni'n ond, bod hynny'n gweithio mynd i'r manifestad ar gyfer y cymryd ar gyfer cyfnodau'i cyfnod Felly mae'r siwethaf o'ch gwybod, sgwp, sgwp, sgwp, sgwp. Felly mae'r sgwp yn gystafell yma, thei'r ddwygen sy'n rhaglu. Ac mae'n ddod o'i ddweud y gallwch chi'r cyfrif? Yn ymddangos i gyflawni i'r gนeddaethau i gyflawni i'r rôl? Yn ymddangosio ymdweud ymddangosio ymddangosio ymddangosio ymdangosio ymddangosio ymdweud. o'r hefyd o'r hoffi, yna ciwethaeth a'r honno sy'n gwaith ar y llyfrwyr, boi'n hefyd oherwydd oesio i ysgolio i glyfnodau y byddai ar falaennyd, ac mae'r clirfog hwnnw. Yngylch yn ystyried, yn ystradd, mae'n ddweud yn ôl y prôl cinc o'r hyffort a'r hyffort i'r hoffi, a'r swyddiadau yw chwarae yn gwneud yn digwyddo ddechrau'u cefnod. Rewn i cefnodd ymddangos, mae roi'n cyd-tafael cyfrifiadol, My absolute favourite question is to ask, what did you do to prepare for this interview? Someone answers that question about what they did to prepare for the interview. They're telling me how much they want the job. They're telling me the extra effort that they went to to make sure that they would be somewhat successful. It also gives them an opportunity to tell me what kind of person they are. Are they proactive? Do they go out and seek information? Or do they get it from other sources? I'm always interested to see who's really passionate. I have gone and I've asked some technical leads what their favourite technical question is, and I've got two, your favourite tool. And then another one was what technology do you use to have fun? So they've both kind of defined that in the way that they want to know whether you've got a genuine passion for coding or technology when it comes to development, whether it's something you do at home in your own time, and also if there's something that you've gone and investigated outside of your studies. So that's always cool to look at. So one of my favourite questions is to ask candidates when something's gone horribly wrong. And it's quite interesting that term horribly wrong is quite subjective. But I want to know, the reason I asked that question is when something did go wrong, how did you cope with it? How did you manage?  So show us how resilient you are is kind of where I'm going with that question. But it always stumps some people, but one I like to ask. So the question I most like asking students is asking them to talk through a team project that they are currently working on or have either worked on and what challenges have they faced throughout that project. And then diving a little bit deeper into that, so asking them about how they would do things differently if they had the chance to. My favourite questions to ask in an interview are firstly tell me about yourself because it gives us a chance to build rapport and break the ice. It also tells us more than you think it does. So if you tell us that you have been part of a sports team for a long period of time you've actually gone into coaching, we can see that you're committed, you're dedicated, you've got a passion for something and that is really indicative of the sort of person that you are and it will help us see if your values and your goals align with us as a company. The second favourite question would be what do you know about main freight because it really weeds out the people who have done the research and those who haven't. So if you can tell us, you know, we're a global company, what our different divisions are, different services, that's great and it does show that you've done the research but we have had one candidate who kind of blew me out of the water really when I asked her what do you know about main freight and she said I know that every year you hold a main freight idol, so like American Idol we all get together, anyone who wants to come together and be part of this main freight idol competition and she said that one day she would love to be part of the competition and then when I asked her what she'd sing she said she'd actually wrap Nicki Minaj so immediately I really warmed to this girl and it was amazing that she'd managed to dive so far into her research that she found something that is very much just an internal event. The third question that I like to ask is why main freight because that helps us understand where your values and your goals and your career direction are going and whether they align with main freight's goals and direction as well. If you get a tricky question don't panic so if you get offered a drink at the interview the beginning of the interview always ask for one always take the water because when you get the tricky question you take a sip of water and you have time to think about it. If you've had your drink of water and you still can't think of an answer then don't be afraid to say the interviewer hey I've had a little bit of a mind blank do you mind if we come back to that one? Most interviewers won't have a problem with that so don't panic is the key piece of advice in that regard. There will always probably be a few tricky questions coming up in interviews so it's really important to take a deep breath you can pause for a moment make sure you're telling your interviewer that you are doing that and ask them to repeat the question if you don't understand something it's really important to get that question across or get that answer across in the right way. So every interviewer likes to ask tricky questions so before you answer it's good to stop have a think about what they've actually asked you make sure that you understand the question and it's completely fine to ask them to rephrase it or say the question again the last thing you want is to start talking before you've properly understood it. Asking questions at the end of the interview is often something that's overlooked by people who are new to the process and it can be a really important part of the decision making process for the interviewer because it shows us how hungry you are for the role and your level of engagement is really important in us deciding if we want to offer you a role. So I would use that opportunity to ask the interviewer about the company and their career journey ask them about the business area you're applying to and about the role that you're going to be going into ask them about future opportunities there's no such thing as a stupid question as long as you've done your research first of all answered all the easy questions about EY for instance don't go in there asking them what parts of the business there are because you can look at that on the internet and we want to see that you have done some research before you come into the interview. So yeah good solid questions that you can't get the information off the internet are always a winner in my opinion. Ask the interviewer insightful questions three things that interviewers judge a candidate on are a candidate's first impression the quality of your answers but also the quality of your questions. So the best questions focus on what impact does my role have on the business and maybe what challenges would I face in my role. Another good question to ask an interviewer is what are the major performance expectations of me in this position and then maybe talk to some past experiences that relate to the job. It can really vary depending on how the interview goes but if you've done your research and you've come across something that you're not 100% sure on this is a great opportunity to ask us for some clarification whether it be on our programme on our business goals and again it shows us that you've done that research but you want a little bit more clarification. It's also quite good to ask the interviewer their experience with the company. If you do that you can see how they have progressed you can also see why they enjoy being part of the company so you can kind of get an idea of whether it is somewhere that you want to be so it kind of works both ways. The interviewer would like to hear questions that show you've done some research but also your interests. So coming to Deloitte wanting to know what the team looks like, the structure, social occasions what we do outside of our everyday but showing a lot of interest in what we do on a day to day basis not just about it being working for Deloitte not being blinded by that brand so wanting to know what the day to day looks like and being really keen to understand how the team operates and what they do. So in terms of asking the interviewer questions I am a firm believer that interviews are a two-way street so although you are being interviewed by KPMG for example this is your chance to ask questions of us it's your chance to find out about the social life it's your chance to find out about the culture ask the questions that you want to know about and don't ask questions that you think we want to hear because we want to get genuine answers and responses from you as well. At the end of an interview the interviewer will always ask you if you have any questions this is a great chance to ask about career progression ahead of the interview you may even be provided with the interviewer's name so it's a great chance to look them up on LinkedIn find out what their role is in the company and even ask them if they have any guidance for you for your future career. So the best way to build rapport in an interview is to ask questions to be yourself try to be relaxed if you've prepared well for the interview you'll be confident you can ask the interviewer about their role in the business and obviously when you get someone talking about themselves it starts to build rapport you're asking questions So, to wear to an interview it's important to be professional again if you're not sure just ask that question of the HR person or whoever you've been dealing with at Fish and Parkour Health Care we don't wear ties or we don't wear suits so we make sure that we let our interviewees know or our candidates know and be comfortable with what you're wearing it's really important also to make sure you iron your clothes that's a big yes So it's really important to remember to dress professionally for an interview dress for the employer obviously if you're applying for a graphic design role the dresser tie might be slightly different to a professional services company so do your research but it's always important to be very professional and neat So in terms of what to wear for an interview gentlemen should wear suits suit and tie and women should be the same so formal business attire at all times I would say at an interview it's common for men to wear ties but on a daily basis in EY if people are just in the office then ties aren't that usual unless you're going out to client's site I think with weddings as well it's better to over dress and under dress so yeah I would just play it safe and wear a tie yes I do think a suit and tie is appropriate we're looking at you when you come in for interview it is that first impression but with Deloitte it's can we put you in front of our client so how did you choose to present yourself to us and it's really important so yes I do think a suit and tie you can never go wrong with a suit and tie so yes I do think so My top three tips I suppose for interviewing are to be relaxed it's difficult to achieve that but if you practice I promise it does get easier and easier a way to overcome those nerves and my second tip would be to really know yourself so you are a product you have a brand that you're trying to sell to the employer, to EY so you need to know exactly what you have to offer and what you're looking for so with the interviewer you can determine if there's a match there between the supply and demand that you're discussing so you know what you have to offer and then know what the things are that are attracting you to EY and then you can talk about why you would be a good fit and why you would be good for the business and a great long term employee thirdly I would encourage you to work on your rapport or networking building sorry your networking skills relationship building skills this is often something that students can struggle with because they've not had much experience of this so come to e-networking sessions come to employer led workshops and just be comfortable with being outside of your comfort zone and talking to strangers as I have mentioned before you will be working with the people who are interviewing and assessing you at the assessment centre and in the interview so they just want to see if you're going to be able to do the job well but are we going to have fun working together are we going to get the best out of our team dynamic and rapport is a really big part of that other things that I think students need to know about an interview is it is a chance for you to learn as well it is a learning experience it's a chance for you to come in and be in a formal professional environment and see what that is like I would also suggest that you definitely do some research beforehand research the building things like if you're going to drive where are you going to park arrive early but don't arrive too early if you have an interview at three o'clock five to three is a perfect time to turn a quick reception three other recommendations when it comes to interview don't be too early and don't be too late too early it looks like you can't manage your time and too late that's obvious be there about ten minutes before you interview that's fair unless you've been asked to come in earlier to do paperwork if you find yourself outside the office half an hour beforehand go find a coffee shop go for a walk, go do something but don't show up too early because it's really awkward for the receptionist while you sit there for half an hour waiting for your interview everybody feels a little bit awkward so don't come in too early is probably one of my key things for you a key thing you should do before going in for interviews is making sure your phone is turned off not on silent turned off it's really distracting not just for the interview but for you as well as your flow and that goes off many a time have been in interviews where the phone is actually run and what that says by you leaving it on is that maybe we're not as important to you as what's coming through on that phone so turn it off if you're serious about coming to work for us just make sure you take a deep breath before you go in no matter how many times you have gone for an interview there is always an element of nervous so you can ask for water if that's going to make you feel more comfortable make sure you go to the bathroom or go to the toilet before so that you are fully comfortable within that interview time presentation is everything I've had a candidate rock up and the first thing I noticed when he sat down was that he was chewing gum and immediately my mind is taking off what he's saying because all I can see is that there's a white piece of gum rolling around in the mouth and we won't be afraid to tell you to spit it out because it is actually it's unprofessional and it's distracting another thing is it is key that you've done your research because it shows us that you're motivated and that you actually want to be here interviewing with us and lastly not just to be yourself because when you come in to your role that's who you're going to be so we want to see your personality we want to see the real you so it's really important in an interview to be yourself try to build rapport with the interviewer if you can ask questions do your research and if possible try to be employers that align with your career goals as well and your career objectives three other tips for nailing your interview would be firm handshake needs to be firm it's always such a good impression if you can hold someone's hand without dominating them but make sure it's there you've got some substance two, arrive early not too early but 10-15 minutes is always good and it gives you an opportunity to breathe while you're sitting outside if you arrive on the dot flustered you're going to be off your balance so if you can arrive early you'll definitely do well and number three act interested if you're interested be interested if you're engaged be engaged if you're leaning back in your seat with your body language you're not interested don't look out the window when you're talking to someone eye contact is really important the difference between someone talking to you while they look out the window and the difference to somebody leaning forward and using hands gestures making eye contact and really trying to get their point across is the difference between a good answer and a bad answer you could have the best answers in the world but if you're answering in a way that gives off the wrong impression you're not going to do well


You're and you're often get confused in the English language. Let's break it down. You're is a possessive adjective and indicates ownership. You're simply the contracted form of you are. Let's take a look at this example sentence. Your grades are great this semester. You're here indicating ownership. You're the best student in the entire school.  Next time you're not quite sure, think about if you want to express ownership or if you want to say you are. That's it for today. See you next time.


So it has been a while. I think it's been like six weeks since my last video went up. So my name's Jackie. You might have forgotten that I wouldn't blame you. I used to make all the two videos once a week and I have taken a couple of smaller breaks since I started in 2019, but this is definitely the longest. So I thought I'd do this casual chatty video as a way of just checking in and letting you know what I've been up to and why I took the break. So the last time I filmed it was during Camp Nanarimo, so let's start there. In camp I had a couple of different goals. The first one was to prepare my YA Superheroes meets the Russian Mafia book powerless for working with a book coach because I had a friend who was doing a book coaching certification and she needed to do a manuscript critique. Then I also wanted to query powerless. I tried to go back to my fantasy hot mess and I also had like the background goal of maybe I'll start something else if my fantasy hot mess isn't going so well. Because I did have a number of different goals I ended up doing a time goal rather than like a word count goal and I actually achieved that I think on the 14th of April. So the first couple of weeks were really, I won't even say productive, but I just spent a lot of time on these things because researching agents and drafting query letters and looking for other authors query letters takes a lot of time and I wasn't expecting that. So I hit my goal quite early on but for the second half of April I did try to stay on track and it was only really in the last week that so I did hit my goal quite early on. I exceeded my goal just with the powerless work alone and then I went back to my fantasy hot mess which is a project I had been working on since Christmas 2020. It has a long and not sorted history, but a long history. I originally wrote it when I was 19 at university then picked it up again. I'm going to say in 2017 and sort of looked at it on and off until 2019 was when I went okay I'm going to be a writer, I'm going to be committed and that was when I finished the second draft of that and I still knew it didn't work but at least I had a draft and then yeah this year was going to be the year when I fix it and made it work and made this story and these characters that I love in my head come to life and that didn't go so well. So I even filmed some videos about the process but yeah I don't know if I should publish them or not just because like that feels like a long time ago now that I've moved on from the project but basically it didn't go so well. I went back to working with the anatomy of the story and tried to use the plot chapter to get a better outline which didn't work. I ended up removing one of my point of view characters and still felt like I had too much to organize in a coherent way without it feeling like a lot of plot and no story as one of my friends says and yeah I got to the end of April and I had this realization which was no part of working on fantasy hot mess has actually been enjoyable and that isn't to say that every part of working on a fiction project should be enjoyable because ideally if you sell your books it is a job, it is a discipline, it's something you should work at but at least some of it should be enjoyable and when I reflected and like even if I looked at the old vlogs I'm sure I'd see that I was just sort of trying to push through and get it done and I was like I didn't mind thinking about it so much and trying to reorganize the puzzle but when I compare it to powerless like powerless yes it was a challenge to write as well but there were parts in the writing process when I'm like yes this is working so well it's good and every time I've reread it even with the areas that can be improved every time I've reread it I've loved the story I've loved the characters I've had so much fun and even rereading my fantasy hot mess like it just felt like a chore so I got to the end of April and thought okay I think I need to give up on this project and yes I might pick it up again in a couple of years but for now I just don't know how to fix it and yeah it's not enjoyable and maybe I'd have better luck if I was working on something that I did enjoy so that's where I was when I stopped filming I had tried doing a little bit about getting back into fantasy hot mess and it didn't go so well and then life happened and good things happened but there was just a lot happening at once so my work takes a lot of mental energy I'm head of marketing in a crypto company and I never intended to be a head of marketing so I'm not really like I do the work I think I'm mostly what I bring to the table is organization and in a company that isn't very organized a lot of the time so I think I do it well but it's not really my natural space so it does take a lot of mental energy but yeah work takes a lot of mental energy and then I had a bunch of things happening they got added on top of the work and I was just feeling exhausted and I've had issues with fatigue in the past and I feel like for the last you know for 2020 and 2021 it's been getting worse and what I would usually do to address that is take like a month or two off and go traveling and recharge and that's not really an option when the world is still closed so I realized I was feeling exhausted pretty much every day and didn't really have any energy to do anything beyond what I absolutely had to get done so I decided I was going to take the month of May off from writing and I didn't intend to take it off from author tube like I was still planning to do videos but clearly that didn't happen and the reason for that is just there was a lot of other stuff happening so I've mentioned my job which is full-time but even the job has extended to be more than full time sometimes like every second Wednesday I've got a call that's at 7 30 and it goes to between 8 30 and 9 so that evening is gone but aside from the job I got approved for my Swiss residence permit which is really exciting if you're new here I am an Australian I live in Estonia and my husband and I are planning to move to Switzerland because the company I work for is Swiss and I started there almost a year ago now so the residence permit finally got approved which is really exciting but then that started the logistics of applying for visas and this is so stupid like I know there's at least one Swiss person who watches these videos so I'd be curious to hear what you think about this process in the comments but basically I have an approved residence permit in Switzerland that I need to go and collect I need to apply for a visa in order to enter the country to collect my residence permit but if I was just visiting Switzerland as a tourist I could stay there for 90 days without a visa so I don't know why I can't just go there and get the permit as long as it's within that 90 days but I need to apply for a visa now there is no Swiss embassy in Estonia the closest one is in Stockholm Sweden which manages all of like the Nordic and Baltic states so that's okay it means I need to send off my documents my passport to Sweden in order to get this back the problem is in May I had to go to Dubai for a week for a work conference and this was and all of this was confirmed like at the very end of April so I was like oh I could send my passport off now but what if it doesn't get back in time for the conference so there was sort of this month of things being on hold for my own visa application but now like I got back from Dubai a week ago so now I have no passport it's in another country but that's happening so thing one is the job thing two is I had this visa application thing three is my husband's visa application so I'm getting a residence permit for employment he is getting a visa as my spouse so he's basically piggybacking on my residence permit and unlike Estonia where you can just show up on your tourist visa and apply for everything here again we need to do it in advance now my visa when I sent it to Stockholm supposedly will take four days before coming back postage is obviously longer that's why I didn't want to do it before Dubai because Estonia's postage is quite slow but four days at the embassy and then it'll come back my husband's visa will take eight to 12 weeks so first in fact even before the time frame he has a whole lot of documents he needs far more than I do like he needs his own ID documents multiple copies of each he needs my ID documents as part of his application and multiple copies of each he needs our marriage certificate the original and copies and he needs to be enrolled in a French course because and he needs to either pass an A1 French exam or he needs to be enrolled in a French course now my husband doesn't have an A1 level of French he speaks what he calls ancient high French which is like saying the cheese to Swiss which is obviously not French he's not going to pass this exam so I needed to enroll him in a class and that was like a process of a good week and a half because one all of the classes recommended by the official site none of them got back to me when I emailed them I reach out to my colleagues to see what they recommended they sent me a language school which I contacted and over the summer they only do intensives which are like three weeks and two hours every night of the week for three weeks and Drew was like well I don't really want to do an intensive like that in summer because summer short and it would be nice to go out in the evenings which is understandable but at the time I was a bit annoyed and just like you know suck it up we've just got to enroll you in this course so then um this is really bad actually I've had kind of marketing intern who started working with me because work was so busy and in his first week I'm like can you research French courses for me which is not part of his job but he had the time so he sent me a list of French courses I contacted all of them we found one enrolled him printed out the confirmation and that went into his application so we did all of his documents which took maybe two weeks because there was a lot of back and forth with the French classes and there was one he even spoke to sent off his stuff and then it's eight to twelve weeks from then so which was like mid-may so let's say the 15th of May plus add two weeks postage because Estonia is slow so that's 10 to 14 weeks now my residence permit actually has an expiry if I don't collect it so it's going to disappear on the 13th of July if I don't go and collect it so obviously we can't move to Switzerland then because my husband isn't going to have his visa yet like he's going to get it by the end of July probably or beginning of August so then I started looking into well can I go to Switzerland just to collect the residence permit and go back and the short answer is yes now but when I was originally looking at it it looked like no that wouldn't be the case because even with a negative PCR test I would still need to do 10 days of quarantine in Switzerland and it's like well I can do 10 days of quarantine but that's quite expensive like can work cover it and work said they'll cover the flights for me to go there and back but not the accommodation for that 10 days so I was like look that's going to be a bit expensive so they've basically negotiated with the local government to write me like a permission letter so I can go there and go back in the same day so hopefully nothing goes wrong with that but um the reason I'm going into all of this detail about stuff that's not relating to writing or author tube at all is that there was a lot on and it's not like anything went wrong with this visa stuff it was just a lot of logistics and a lot of moving bits where you're going okay this comes in at this date and then we've got to do this here and and you're trying to plan out your life basically like we're moving countries and you can't really plan that much because you don't know when anything's going to happen like at the moment the big variable is Drew's visa because we can't move until we get that so when do we give notice on our apartment for example when do we book our flights and accommodation for when we first arrived in Switzerland so having the job plus this trip to Dubai for work plus the visa stuff plus positive thing was that Estonia came out of lockdown in mid-may so we'd had our second lockdown of the year um everything had been closed for about two months so we came out of lockdown which meant I could see friends again and go to the gym again all of which is positive but just more things getting added to the schedule at once so we're all of that happening and I was already feeling like worn out and creatively drained I just went okay I think the safest thing to do now is to take a little bit of time off riding because I don't even want to say even if I pushed through because the thing was I felt like I was already pushing through at that stage like everything I was doing for fantasy hot mess was just um I was just a slog like I was really really working hard to get through it and I didn't really have any way to recharge from that and I thought you know I can keep doing this but I'm not getting anywhere like I think it would have been different if I felt like I was making meaningful progress but all I was doing was spending hours and not really writing anything new or finding new like new inspirational solutions and I also thought about switching over to something new but with all of that on the thought of like trying to do something new and even to be honest the thought of like trying to document it in this way like taking videos as I went was just like more than I was mentally able to process at the time and I just thought okay I'm giving myself permission to take the month of May off we'll see how I feel at the end of the month and then hopefully come back to it so the end of May has passed it is now like a week into June I think today is the sixth and um I'm not sure where to go from here I definitely don't want to go back to fantasy hot mess I do think letting that go was the right decision part of me thinks that maybe I will never write that book and Victoria Schwab who I'm a big fan of despite my Adi LaRue video one of the things she's talked about in her early career is that her first book was good enough to get her an agent but it wasn't good enough to get published and people sometimes ask her about it now and she's said she's never going to publish that book because it just wasn't good enough but she's taken elements of that book and used them in other places and part of me thinks like maybe I'll take some of these characters in use them somewhere else or some elements of this world and use it somewhere else and I haven't been completely persuaded to take that approach yet because part of me thinks oh maybe in a couple years I will be able to fix it and if I've you know taken Perry out of that world and put her somewhere else then I've got a big hole in this world so at the moment I'm not doing anything with it but I'm also aware that it's highly likely this book is not fixable yeah this book is not fixable I don't think I don't think there's any way to do everything I was trying to do in a single book and have it make sense and be coherent well that that's a bit of a double up isn't it make sense and be compelling and that's disappointing because I loved this world and these stories and I love the you know themes and the existential conflict but it wasn't working so now I'm like maybe that book will never get published it was a great experiment when I was 19 and now as more of a grown-up writer maybe I'll be able to repurpose some parts of that so that's where I am with fantasy hot mess and it means I'm not sure where to go next because I have a couple of options I have a project that I started last year in camp in Araymo and ended up stopping when I had the interview process for this job so you can see this job has been great for my writing and if anyone from work happens to see this don't worry I'm not going anywhere but yeah it was easier to write before I had this job so I have this reciprocal stalking project that I could pick up but I don't think that makes sense from a career perspective because if I get a deal with powerless then I should have something else in the YA sci-fi fantasy space so I think that one will continue to be on hold and I was also thinking about doing like retelling Final Fantasy 10 sort of if you look at my I think it was my last video I talked about something from the story grid podcast called the master work experiment where basically you deconstruct something that you think is a master work and then find all of the same beats and themes and you use them to create something that should be a completely original story but it will work because it takes everything that works from the other thing so I was thinking of Final Fantasy 10 so maybe that and then the other one is I had a dream recently which didn't have any story so much but there's some really clear imagery for the world so I'm thinking about playing with that as well but yeah I'm not sure like even doing this video is tiring and I have a feeling my camera is going to overheat very soon so I should probably wrap up yeah aside from everything I've had on for the last month like professionally and personally with the visas and the jobs and the trip like all I've really been doing in my free time is reading and playing PlayStation and this is why I don't play PlayStation because it's addictive so from here I'm actually not sure where to go part of me thinks I should start something brand new just so it doesn't come with any baggage of anything I've thought about or worked on in the past yeah I just don't know if I have it in me and honestly that scares me because like I was supposed to be committing to being a writer and yet I haven't written anything new like I haven't finished a new project since 2019 and that's not how writers work especially YA writers because like YA authors need to publish quite frequently because their audiences are going to age out of their work quite soon so yeah I don't know what to do and I don't really have any way to go from here to be completely honest like I yeah sat down to talk to a camera thinking oh this is going to be an interesting discussion about creative burnout and writing and it just ended up being me babbling to the camera for 20 minutes about visas then anyway this is where I've been for the last six weeks thank you for watching thank you for sticking around 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Hello everybody! So in the last month so many dropshippers accounts was blocked on eBay because of huge increase in sales. Why this huge increase of sales came and how did it happen? It happened because eBay removed flags from eBay dropshippers accounts and now all of the dropshippers got their sales back. Also the promoted listing is back, but it made some huge problems. Most of the dropshippers don't know how to work with these huge volumes and then their eBay accounts being blocked. So what to do in this situation and how to work smart so we can grow very easily without being blocked on eBay. This what we will talk about on this video. So the thing is that most of the dropshippers accounts being blocked just because of the huge increase of sales because they grow too fast. Growing too fast is something which is very dangerous because eBay immediately flagging your account as the account which is dangerous for them and for their buyers and for their customers and their system. So if you don't like when you grow so fast and for this they always sending you verification and they want you to provide some documents sometimes it calls mc011 sometimes it has some different names. But what I recommend you to do. I see a lot of accounts like this one which have huge increases of sales 300% 1000% and even more especially the accounts of the mentorship program. What I recommend you to do is if you already got over 500 dollars per day in sales don't go over 20% increase per month it means that if you have already 500 dollars per day in sales don't increase it to over 600 dollars per day in one month and how to do it in the right way. For this you have two main things that you can do. The first method is just increase your prices. Increase your prices first by 5% then by 10% and if you see that the sales going down too much just decrease the prices back and if you see that the sales are still fine and you still didn't grow by more than 20% and you still decrease and you didn't decrease it too much so you can increase your prices more and more. It's fine to make more profits per order and per product which you sold. The second thing is that upload more expensive products. I already made a video about how to work with expensive products. I will attach it under this video and you can also ask in the comments any question that you have about this but if you work with more expensive products you will make more profits per product that you sell and in this way you will not increase your revenue too much but you will increase your profits in a much more profit per product because the products are expensive. So this is the two main things that I recommended to do. The first one is increase the prices step by step and the second one is upload more expensive products. I hope that you liked this video. Write down in the comments what do you think about the video and which videos would you like to get more from me for free in this youtube channel. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and like this video. See you in the next videos. Bye.


Is the narcissist happy with their new supply? Narcissists are impulsive. They act without thinking, without planning or consideration of the results. Which is why they can be very unpredictable. They can do things that you didn't expect them to do. They show a lack of care about risks and danger. Because they're heedless of the consequences of their actions. They have a compulsive desire for excitement and adventure. Because it makes them feel alive, it makes them feel like they exist. And it also conceals their pain and border. So once they've obtained new supply, they're filled with excitement and confidence. It's not real, but in that moment they actually feel like they're happy. It feels real to them, because it's still shiny and new. They haven't learned this new person, so they feel good about it. And they will post pictures and videos on social media. They will be laughing and smiling as if you never existed. As if you never meant anything to them. As if they've forgotten about you. And this may shock and confuse you. Because they were meant to be in love with you.   But narcissists are dysfunctional. Their ego is in bad condition due to misuse. To where they cannot experience emotions in the same way as normal people. And they cannot regulate their own emotions. So for the rest of their lives they will have to depend on other people to compensate for that. They will have to use them to self-medicate. So that they can feel better about themselves and their lives. By experiencing life and their imagination for the actions of another person. They get in their feelings and experiences from someone else. Because they can't experience it on their own. But this is also why they hate people that they're dependent on. They become very bitter and resentful towards them. Because they know that they need them so that they can feel emotionally stable. They're dependent on other people. So when they obtain new supply. They may seem happy in that moment. Because it's a form of escapism. They seek a distraction and relief from their unpleasant reality. By seeking entertainment and engaging in fantasy. But really it's like an emotional roller coaster. There's always ups and downs. One moment they're happy and the next moment they're not. But while the supply is new it will help to suppress their misery and pain. It will distract them from their negative beliefs about themselves. Because now they can focus all of their time and attention on their new supply. Instead of having to accept that something is wrong with them. But after some time the drug begins to lose its potency. It no longer has the same effect that it once did. Because now they've ran them into the ground. They've drained them of everything they have. Then they will take the purse for granted. Because it's no longer new. It's no longer effective. It's not working anymore. And when that happens they have to replace their supply. Because they're going to see it as though you're not good enough for them. Even though you were once able to do everything for them. And they praised and complimented you. But now it's like you can't do anything right. So they have to get rid of you. They have to bring in a new person to suppress their misery and pain. Because people are just a form of medication to the narcissist. They use to regulate their emotions. But it never solves the core issue. It just acts as a bandage. And the wound never heals. And eventually that bandage needs to be replaced. But they will never really be happy. Because they have a disorder. And they're heavily dependent on people. They can't find any peace or happiness within themselves. Which is why they always have to go into fantasies and delusions. To distract themselves from that unpleasant reality. They will never truly be happy. Even when they seem to have moved on and found someone new. It's just a form of medication to them. And it's not going to cure them. It's not going to relieve them of their sickness. You have to remember everything you went through with the narcissist. Remember all of the things they did to you. And then question what type of person would want to be with someone like that. What type of person would choose to be with a narcissist. Maybe someone who is unaware. Or someone who is always with a narcissist. Or maybe someone who is a codependent. They want you to believe that in a better situation. They want you to believe they're happy now. And many of you do believe that. Because you don't consider what the new person is like. You don't even know who the new person is. You need to avoid getting caught up in what they're displaying to you. By remembering how they treated you. Because eventually that's how they're going to treat the new person as well. They're not going to change. They're going to continue doing what they do. You're still emotionally invested in the narcissist. Because you're trying to figure out why they're doing this. But you're never going to fully understand it. Because sometimes it doesn't even make sense. Sometimes they don't even know why. They act without thinking. There's no reason for it. So there's no point worrying about why they did it. Just know that in time there will be fights and disagreements. There will be damage and destruction. It doesn't matter what it looks like on the outside. They want you to think they're happy and moved on. Because it's a competition. They're trying to outdo you.  Where you're either right or wrong. You're either all good or all bad. Even if you try to make things right. Even if you try to be better. They're just not going to like you no matter what you do for them. Because they're not even trying to understand you. So they're not going to show any compassion or forgiveness towards you. They're going to do everything they can to punish you. And you may remember times when you were with them. But they were always arguing with people. They always had to pick a fight. They always saw other people as the opposition. As something that they had to defeat or overcome. And eventually that's going to happen with their new supply. And then they will have to move on again. Because they're stuck in a pattern. And they can't remove themselves from it. They're condemned to repeat the same thing over and over again. They're destined to experience the same results. Which is a very miserable experience for them. Because they will never experience true fulfillment and satisfaction. They will always come back to the start again. And that is why they have these insatiable desires. They can never be satisfied. They were never happy with anything you did for them. It was never enough. And that's what it's going to be like for them for the rest of their lives. They're always going to experience dissatisfaction with everyone they run into. It's just a matter of time. Thank you for watching. 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So now we're actually going to do our titration, but before we do our titration, we actually have to add what is called an indicator that will tell us that our reaction is basically complete. So this indicator's name is actually phenolphthalein, and phenolphthalein, I should say. The concentration I'm using is 0.1%. The importance of this indicator is that in an acid environment it is colorless, but when a base is added, when all of the reaction, when the reaction is complete, the solution is going to turn from colorless to pink. So the indicator is going to tell you when your reaction has ended. And if I didn't mention this before, actually the type of reaction that we're doing is called a neutralization reaction, where an acid plus a base gives you a salt plus water. So when the neutralization point has been reached, the indicator is going to change its color from colorless to pink. So for this reaction, I'm going to use two drops of phenolphthalein, and then I'm going to start my titration. So the burette, in this case, contains the base which we're using, which is actually sodium hydroxide. The flask contains KHB, so just to note, make a note of that. So we already know how much KHB we have in our flask. We added one gram of the solid to 30 ml of water. So we know what we have in our flask. What we don't know is the concentration of our sodium hydroxide, or what we want to determine or confirm the concentration of it. So we're going to start first. So this is how you do a titration normally. Since you don't know how much volume you're going to add to your flask, you have to add your volume starting in increments of one mil. So what I want to do first, though, is to record the reading on the burette. So if you notice, the burette has increments starting from zero at the top to 50 at the bottom. So it increases in increments of one mil from zero to 50. So the further up you go, the less the number will be. So I'm starting at an initial concentration of 10 mils. So that's what I read when I look at the level of the sodium hydroxide, when I read below the meniscus. So I'm going to start. So basically you hold their stopcock in order to regulate the amount of base you're adding to your solution. And as I told you, I'm going to add my base in increments of one mil. So I turn my stopcock to a slightly vertical position in order for the base to get in. So I add and I stop every time I get to a mil downwards. Again I stop and I shake to, I swirl the flask in order to make sure that my two substances are mixing together so that they can react with each other. So I continue to do this. So this is what you would do the first time around. You're going to do this three times. This is called your trial run to give you an idea of how much volume you need to add to your acid in order to end the reaction. And remember the reaction ends when the solution turns from colorless to pink. So I notice that my solution is starting to get pink, but the pink does not stay. So it tells me that I still haven't gotten to my end point yet. So each time it's important for you to keep swirling the flask so that the reactants can get mixed with each other. So if you notice, I got a pink color. And if I were to record this and the pink color actually stayed. So this is a trial run. So I recorded the volume at which I first saw pink and it actually remained. And that is the final volume in this case would be, if I read it from the burette, it would be 31.7 mils. So I can determine the volume of sodium chloride that I added by subtracting the final burette reading from the initial burette reading. So that would be 31.7 mils subtracted from 10 mils. And that would give me 21.7 mils of sodium hydroxide. So of course, if you were to do the next trial, the next two runs, you would be more accurate in subsequent readings because now you know that you added 21.7. So if you were to do this experiment over again, if you're going to repeat it twice, then what you do is to subtract three mils from 21. So 21 minus three would give me about 18.7 mils. So the next time you're doing this titration, what you can do to speed up the process is to add approximately 18 mils of your base sodium hydroxide to your acid solution without having to swirl because you know you won't get to your endpoint yet. When you have added 18 mils, then after that time you add drop-wise your base until the first sign of pink color is seen. And then you record that final volume when you first see that pink color. And that would tell you the accurate volume of your base that's reacted with your acid in the Erlenmeyer flask.