Hello! So…made the decision today that I need to pursue something. I’ve often been told about my voice. How others think that it’s not IT work, but rather my VOICE that is my calling, and that I’m likely not following my true path. Now, usually I don’t make my life decisions based on such comments, but the fact is, this IS something that I have dreamed about since I was a kid. I hear it a few times per month…on conference calls at work, phone calls from random telemarketers, etc. Now, coming from a strict Caribbean household, this is not something that my immigrant parents would understand as a career choice. I mean, they didn’t struggle through my childhood so that their son could go make funny voices into a microphone. After all, that’s no way to make a living, is it? I excelled in school and the hopes for me in a white collar career were very high. I didn’t want to let anyone down. That, however, was the first of many mistakes I made when I was younger. Trying to live my life to make OTHERS happy. I mean, I worried mroe about what people would think about throwing away my pre-med degrees (I ended up not going into the medical field, but rather IT, so that’s a whole other discussion), instead of worrying about what made ME happy. Well, here I am now, by most accounts, very successful. I, however, feel like I’ve hit a ceiling, and while there is always something to learn in this ever-changing IT world, I do often wake up thinking that, while I am good at what I do, there is likely a reason that it’s not fulfilling.
I mean, I’m not trying to sound like I am some ungrateful individual. My family and I live a great life, afforded by this career, along with my wife’s as a Registered Nurse. We have a roof over our heads, always a house full of food. We eat what we want, buy we want, vacation how we want…so yeah, what am I complaining about? Well, one thing I’ve come to learn is that just because you CAN do something well, doesn’t mean that it’s what you were MEANT to do. I need to chase a passion. I need to live the dream, and I don’t think IT is it for me. I do it to pay the bills, but I’d much rather do something that fills the void – and yes – I truly feel that voiceover work is where I belong. Now, I have no misgivings that this will be easy, but I’m taking those first steps and I really just need to dig in and start the learning process.
Time to embark on this VO journey! More to come!
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