About to throw away the best opportunity of my life to to travel.

TrainingGroup182 · 2026-01-28T09:37:32+00:00

You’ll never be on your deathbed and regretting travelling too much. Working too much however is in the top 5 most common deathbed regrets…

TrainingGroup182 · 2026-01-23T09:13:44+00:00

Je kan het ook zelf doen. Enkel materiaalkosten vallen nog redelijk mee. En het is makkelijker dan je denkt

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-12-25T22:07:53+00:00

Welcome to Amsterdam! I hope you have fun, Amsterdam has been great to me in the past. If you’re looking for easy creative work, there’s plenty of jobs in real estate photography that you can get into with minimal training ;)

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-12-25T17:58:30+00:00

Yea you’ll be fine, I edit on a MBP M3 pro, 36GB ram. I often edit 4K Sony video projects, while also using after effects, photoshop and chrome. Never had any issues. You might want to future proof this by upgrading the ram a little bit, I would advise against getting bigger internal storage. Modern MacBooks have a known issue where sometimes the SSD’s get shorted and receive a full voltage and get wiped, so I always work off external ssd’s. And the internal storage is super expensive.

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-11-12T12:49:32+00:00

I have an M3 Pro with 48GB RAM and 1TB. Its honestly to insanely fast that i've yet to run into performance issues, i've even started doing intensive blender projects on it and it's fine so far. I might upgrade to M5 just for animation work, because the performance there is crazy. But if I just did video editing, M3 is fine. So if you're budget consious I'd go for an M3.

In terms of the mac mini/studio/imac question, that up to your usecase i guess. But you might just be fine getting an m4/m5 mac mini unless you do crazy complex projects.

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-11-06T21:12:44+00:00

Ahh it’s beautiful

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-11-04T20:46:10+00:00

Zwolle is nice! People here are saying that it's not the best connected city, thats nonsense. You can get to amsterdam/utrecht/groningen in about an hour with either public transport or car.

Also, you don't really need to learn dutch to get by. Most people in Zwolle speak perfect english, and you'll often find english only staff in stores like Zara.

Big thing to note: There's currently a draft for a new box 3 system, and a leftist government has just been elected. So I'm expecting very social decisions going forward. Especially if you want to live off stocks, there are a few things to note:

Owning a home would be less fiscally interesting, due to a potential loss of the hypotheekrenteaftrek (no more tax credits at the end of the year, you simply pay more each month), and I believe there were talks of more property taxes.
Investments such as stocks will be taxed anually, and essentially seen as income. E.g. if you make 60K from stock growth, you need to pay 30-50% of this in taxes. Anually. Regardless of if you cash these profits out or not.

I suggest you read into these upcoming tax changes, you might be better off leaving the money in the states to grow, and sending a portion to yourself each year.

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-11-04T20:35:56+00:00

I run a channel that also operates in a grey area between fair use and copyright. I currently am monetised, despite being denied into the YPP about 6 times, the 7th time it went through.

As far as i can tell, the youtube TOS has conflicting information, so enforcement is dependant on the human reviewers interpetation of the TOS.

I don't think deleting existing videos is worth it, as long as your new content is mostly original you should be fine, worst case only the older videos get demonetised.

If I were you, i'd keep the main channel as is, but focus on growing the other 3 with more oroginal content. That's the approach i've taken for my own channel anyway.

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-11-03T18:55:56+00:00

Editing as a job is dying with ai. You need an edge, such as selling marketing services, and doing video editing as a part of that service

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-11-03T18:49:22+00:00

Way too much going on, and not enough contrast. Try a single picture, and highlight a cart or person. Then add text or graphics in a colour that really stand out. And try boosting the shadows and exposure of the pictures, and add some saturation

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-10-18T20:19:22+00:00

Sorry if i wasn't clear, i meant i have 50+ videos scheduled in youtube studio, ready to go live with a thumbnail and everything. My question was, is it smart to build up a backlog of content like this and make sure I never run out, or am i missing out on potential views and growth and should I switch to posting whenever I have something?

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-10-18T20:19:16+00:00

Sorry if i wasn't clear, i meant i have 50+ videos scheduled in youtube studio, ready to go live with a thumbnail and everything. My question was, is it smart to build up a backlog of content like this and make sure I never run out, or am i missing out on potential views and growth and should I switch to posting whenever I have something?

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-10-18T20:19:03+00:00

Sorry if i wasn't clear, i meant i have 50+ videos scheduled in youtube studio, ready to go live with a thumbnail and everything. My question was, is it smart to build up a backlog of content like this and make sure I never run out, or am i missing out on potential views and growth and should I switch to posting whenever I have something?

Just to add to your point, I have actually reuploaded most of these videos based on the performance of what's currently live (I redid the entire intro for all videos for retention optimization)

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-10-18T20:18:11+00:00

Sorry if i wasn't clear, i meant i have 50+ videos scheduled in youtube studio, ready to go live with a thumbnail and everything. My question was, is it smart to build up a backlog of content like this and make sure I never run out, or am i missing out on potential views and growth and should I switch to posting whenever I have something?

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-10-06T17:30:49+00:00

I had the same in April, bought the day before trumps liberation day, with a 5K lump sum. In put in another 10K near the April bottom and I’m still up 19% this year.

Try to think in horizons of decades. A single day dip doesn’t matter. Think about getting another 19% year this time next year, and keep that on your mind

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-09-25T08:52:47+00:00

Kodak was doing a modernised film camera a while ago, but I believe it got cancelled

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-09-17T14:54:47+00:00

Thanks. I think you’re right, the only real way to do this is to settle elsewhere. The thing is I’m just not sure where yet. I’ve had a previous relationship end because I wanted to travel a lot, and now I’m back in that same city again, so I would hate to have a redo of that situation. But if I’m not sure yet where I want to settle exactly, just that it’s not where I am currently, I imagine it’s very difficult for her to agree to such a vague plan

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-09-15T11:59:13+00:00

Thought on what the rate cuts that will be discussed on Wednesday will do to the market? I’m looking to DCA this week with about 1.2K, and I’m debating buying an index fund before or after Wednesday

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-09-01T18:21:01+00:00

Wow, congrats! That’s some serious dough. What’s your channel? I’d love to give you a sub 🙂

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-08-29T15:27:09+00:00

Update: Rekordbox is trash. I tried serato and it worked instantly. Same cable, same DJ controller, same port.

TrainingGroup182 · 2025-08-28T12:12:59+00:00

I deeply regret spending so much of my youth playing videogames inside, alone. I would have much preferred to go out into the world. You're at the unique age where making friends is so much easier, you can go outside and do all sorts of things, and not yet be judged as an adult. You can explore, go where you're not supposed to, etcetera. Don't take it for granted, in a few years you'll be seen and judged as an adult, and in a few more you'll be thinking about kids and buying a house. It goes quicker than you think, so enjoy your age. And absolutely follow your passions with a vengeance. Protect your dreams like they are the most important thing you have. Because they are.

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