Half way to 40
February 18th is a rather eventful day. Not only will it be my four-year anniversary with Rooster Teeth Productions, but it will also be my 20th birthday. No longer a teenager. I'm getting depressed already just thinking about. But this is not a time to be sad. I think I had a good run. My teenage years were somewhat rollercoastery, but I feel like I've pretty much experienced the spectrum of what you can. My time in education aside - which was amazing in itself - I got to travel to America several times and see and live in an entirely different world. It wasn't easy getting there. I had to work my arse off, coming home from school and immediately getting online to work long into the night (probably longer hours than necessary or technically permissible). I didn't know where specifically it was all going, but I knew that it would all pay off in the end. When I joined this company on my 16th birthday, I had no idea what was going to happen. There was always a worry for me that it was too alien, too much. I came close to turning it down. The biggest concern I had then and still do now, was growing up too fast. The absolute biggest challenge of my career was keeping it balanced so I could still enjoy being a teenager. While I've grown so much professionally during my time here, and developed brand new skills beyond the web into graphic design, PR, marketing and movie producing, none of it has come at the expense of a normal childhood, which I think is rather remarkable. I have the best of both worlds; a work life I never even dared dreaming of ("I'm just a kid from England, of course I'll never work at Rooster Teeth, what a preposterous thought"), and the perfect home life. As I stand now, on the edge of 20, I think I can look back and say I did a bloody good job of it all. I can't really say I'd change anything I did. It's actually quite possible I've not grown up from 16 at all. And I'm cool with that. I'm into the countdown now. Less than a month to go. Since dropping out of University I've opened up a lot more free time for myself, so I've been compiling my 'teenage bucket list' if you will, and been trying to cross off as much as I can. I have managed to do quite a lot, but not enough. So this is where you guys come in. What do I need to do before I turn 20? Keeping in mind that, as a magnificent British citizen, drinking is most definitely on. Life is good. |
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