[Spoken: Ryan Mitchum]
I went downtown today and I had an in-person interview with a software company and, uh, it was very interesting. It was the first time in a while I'd had an in-person interview. Last time I'd really been anywhere for a business sort of thing was in February when I was let go from a consulting firm. They told me that it was something I wasn't ready for yet right after training had finished, which... didn't feel very good, I'm not gonna lie.

That whole deal led to a big - I don't wanna say a downward spiral, but I guess there isn't really a better way to describe just a feeling of almost uselessness and pressure from a bunch of people and... Just nights where I'd break down sometimes even. It sucked. And it did definitely lead to some sort of depression cause there was a career group I could've gone to and... On Monday mornings I would stand outside the door to the career group and... I would end up just turning around and going back to my car.

I don't know what caused it to this day, but one day I decided that I was going to just walk in. I dunno, I guess I just willed myself to do it. And on that day it became just so painfully clear how I was doing, cause... I wasn't really showing my full self to the business world. I had an idea of, "Oh, business. I have to do all of my computer, science, software, programming stuff and show off that stuff!" But I was - it was so restrictive. I didn't tell them about - I didn't say on my resume anything about this music stuff that I do, anything I do on YouTube, any of my passions for games, my passions for creativity, I was just a "guy who did things."

And they told me that with all this other stuff, all thse passions that are within me, that was something that people are going to care about. Even if it doesn't fit exactly within the mold, you can prove that you're a person cause you have passion. And ever since then I've been on an upward climb cause I've just been showing more of this stuff that I do on my resume. I've been reflecting all of who I am and presenting all of me to people. And, um...

I've got thirty seconds left on these noodles, I don't know how much... what the bottom line of this is, so to speak. If there is a bottom line, if I'm just rambling while I'm waiting for this. But I guess if anything, it's just... You have to make sure you're showing your true self cause... What you do is you put talent and passion into the things you love. And people are gonna care about that. 'Cause passion rocks. Peace out.