During Covid was I was inspired by the movie tick tick boom to push myself to follow my creative dreams and stop wasting time. I did self reflection like everyone during Covid and found my love for art was always in front of me. I read and collected manga and comic books so I pushed myself and I took online art classes for around a year. I used that to do some local art shows at comic stores. From there I transitioned my job from retail to fulfillment which helped me learn how numbers work in a business and how much units need to be sold and how that side of things worked, I had a good boss who helped teach me to be a better manager, now I manager a restaurant. After practicing art I started seeing it everywhere, I resold shoes for awhile but I could see what made stuff have value. Therese design, even packaging and I used pens so much I stumbled in to fountain pens and I’ve never left. During this time I’ve been a step parent and had my wife with me for nearly 10 years. We have our first child coming in April! My life’s been on an upward trajectory since I started focusing on what’s actually important, my YouTube name is wasted paper. I choose that name because the idea is “any page left unfilled is wasted paper and you can’t improve it critque a blank page, so you have to do something. Start somewhere and then we can improve it” Partial inspired by a phrase I heard Neil Gaimen say once. Thank you for this I’m not sure what else to say.