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It's kind of crazy how the timing of life and events can work out and just how things
can come around just when they need to.
So nine months ago today, on Monday, October 13th, I got laid off.
I didn't end up filing for unemployment until December because I had a couple of potential
job opportunities like one was going back to my previous job because they said the door was
always open and then another one somebody said that their job was hiring but then nothing
ever came of that and my old job is still not able to hire.
They just not that they didn't want me back or couldn't take me well they couldn't take
me back because they weren't able to hire because they don't have enough projects.
But I don't know when it was that I applied and I had been applying for jobs.
I had been applying for drafting jobs and I applied for this one job just wasn't expecting
anything from it then I heard back and last week I ended up getting the official call
and offer letter for this new full-time job and so what's crazy is so it's like okay now I have
a full-time job I'm not going to start until August 3rd because of the paperwork and all
the timing and everything but with my unemployment I have to file and request a payment every other
Sunday well yesterday was that every other Sunday and yesterday when I went to go apply for or when
I went to go request a payment there was a message that said there are no more benefits or there are
no benefits remaining on your claim which to me says there's either no more money or for some
reason we just can't continue giving you unemployment so I don't know that that's 100%
accurate I don't know I'm gonna give them a call just to see let them know hey I'm not starting
until August 3rd so I'll see what's gonna happen but it's just the whole timing of all of that
is that first of all nine months ago today I got laid off yesterday I go to request a payment
for for unemployment and apparently there's no more money remaining or something but prior to
that the week prior I ended up getting an offer for a full-time job so kind of crazy how that all
just seemed to line up I know that this is a subi scoop but I said I would use a subi scoop to catch
people up on what's going on in my life and of course I still have a subi and my son still has his
my daughter still has hers so this is still a subi scoop and I'm sure I'll be able to fill
something in there but anyway so I am going to be working for Perry Holmes doing as as a site plan
or two position and I'm gonna be basically laying out site plans and on home lots so I'm gonna be
drafting all day which is exactly what I've enjoyed doing what I wasn't doing for a really long time
and what I wanted to get back to doing if I was going to be going back to a full-time job
and so that's what I'm going to be doing drafting all day not only that but it is a fully 100%
remote job which is what I was also looking for because I want the ability and flexibility
to go up and visit Kelly and go see her for like a week if I want to two weeks if I want to
and eventually be able to move somewhere else so that is like very very key but it was really
cool how something else happened too so I was working on a UGC job for a client which if you
don't know what UGC is UGC is user-generated content it's where content creators create
content for brands the brands then post them on their own social media either as organic ads or
as paid ads and then they pay the creators and then there's several different ways to create the
content and deliver it to the brand but that's basically what it is in a very very short synopsis
of UGC so this brand wanted me to create content at a pickleball court at a dedicated pickleball
court and it is very very hard to find one around here there's a there's a country club that just
had some pickleball courts built but I don't have a membership and I can't go over there and do that
then I and I told the brand I said hey I'm having trouble finding a dedicated pickleball court so
I said there there are ones that are like inside of a tennis court where they like just
stripe it off or pickleball like on either side of a tennis court and they said okay that'll work
you know that's not ideal that's not what they were really looking for but they said that'll
be okay and that'll work because we understand your circumstances so there is a there's two
tennis courts in the neighborhood behind me that Luke and I have been to several times to go play
pickleball and tennis so we get over there and and then we actually went out there on we went
there on July 4th and we were going to try to get in there and create content inside on the fence
next to the gate where you go through there's a big metal box and inside that big metal box there
used to be a big red button like a like an emergency stop button well Luke was able to reach his arm
through the gate use the end of the tennis racket or the pickleball paddle and push the button and
we could go in but they recently changed the button because now it's like a metal ring with a button
that is flush with the metal ring so you can't just easily push the button so we weren't able to get
in we were also going to do 4th of July stuff so I'm like I and I knew about this other pickleball
court that was in this neighborhood and I but I wasn't sure what it looked like I wasn't sure
if it was locked gated whatever so I decided to go out there go drive out there on a Monday
and I saw that it was open like it was it had low side gates and it had like tall gates on the ends
but it was basically open and nobody was there so as I'm approaching this pickleball court
and this is right this was actually right before I got the offer for the job the official offer I
knew the offer was coming they said they were just waiting to have the offer letter signed off
and so and then once they had it signed off the manager would call me offer me the position
and then I would get the actual offer letter so this was a day prior to that so I go up to the
pickleball court and right there in front of the gate was a mat that said Perry Holmes the company
that I just got an offer for so I took that as a sign because I'm still going to be creating
UGC content for brands I'm going to be working for Perry Holmes I'm going to still be doing the
podcast and so uh yeah I just it was crazy how that all lined up I get an offer from this company
I'm doing work for UGC brands I go to this pickleball court the the last one that I
finally decided to go to and there's a Perry Holmes mat right out in front and then of course
getting laid off nine months ago and then having my benefits end right as I get a job and I don't
know if like Perry Holmes ended up putting in the system or something that you know and they
somehow found out like hey this guy got an offer but you're supposed to be able to get
benefits up until the point that you actually start earning money and haven't started earning
money with them yet so uh I don't know what's going on I'm gonna give them a call and see if
maybe we can work something out for like one more check but of course I haven't been sitting around
doing nothing I started doing more content for Subaru gear and then I went to Overland Expo West
Overland Expo P&W I'm still working on the content from those um but you know I've been
doing other stuff I was been doing well I was doing the Amazon influencer program but I stopped
doing that because to focus on UGC because it's a lot more lucrative but then I started building
my UGC career started earning money from that and now I'm like in a pretty good position to where
uh I don't really need the unemployment anymore so that is also perfect timing but of course
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to get 20 off one item or your entire purchase if your total is over $50 after the 20 discount
you'll automatically get free shipping and that is really cool so thank you so much Subaru gear
thank you so much for tuning into the SUBE scoop we'll see you next monday for another regular
episode much to be loved wrap
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