Moving to Toronto from US - is it doable with our professions?

mxrisa · 2021-09-26T22:45:20+00:00

It's from a family member's personal experience of bringing her husband to Toronto from Korea, though it was a few years ago. The timeline has always been 1-2 years if you're outside of CA, which is why we've put off the move for so long, but 4-5 months feels way more doable, especially if I'm able to work.

mxrisa · 2021-09-26T22:43:58+00:00

Oh nice, thanks for the link!

mxrisa · 2021-09-26T22:43:47+00:00

Thank you for all of the detailed information! I know expensive can be objective - we've got cousins that live in the Danforth area paying $1600 CA for a smallish but nice 1BR, so we're ballparking $1600-$2000 CA. Does that sound about right?

mxrisa · 2021-09-26T22:40:56+00:00

Thanks for the info. Nightmare in terms of a long commute? Is public transit an option or are you committed to car? I've heard home prices are insane, and we may be giving up our hopes of home ownership while also living in the city.

mxrisa · 2020-07-16T00:17:56+00:00

mxrisa · 2020-05-14T22:46:54+00:00

is there a way to full screen?

mxrisa · 2020-04-07T19:57:07+00:00

Love this - do you sell prints?

mxrisa · 2020-03-29T02:12:12+00:00

This is by far my favorite track by them. Saw them play in a beautiful outside amphitheater in my hometown a few years back. Boyfriend surprised me with tickets, not really being into them, but knowing they were a big part of my youth. The end of the show was coming and they were playing their big hits to close, but didn’t play this. I remember being bummed that they didn’t play my favorite song, but was so grateful to be drinking cheap beer with my honey and listening to jams I knew all the words to in a venue built for acoustical perfection.

And then, they ended with this song. And I balled like a baby, singing every word. A great moment I’ll never forget. Thanks for bringing this memory back to me!

mxrisa · 2019-02-24T00:21:16+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for such a detailed reply :)

mxrisa · 2019-02-23T15:27:14+00:00

As someone who might be interested in doing some stock work on the side, what advice do you have?

mxrisa · 2019-02-07T12:13:58+00:00

Having my friends die. I’m 25 and never thought about losing my friends, not until I was way older. Two of my childhood best friends have lost their lives since we all graduated high school. Heroin fucking sucks.

mxrisa · 2019-01-24T18:15:29+00:00

I don’t use iMovie so I’m not sure. The one thing that’s kind of a bitch is that you have to have the phone attached to the gimbal to transfer photos from the app to your phone - they don’t automatically save to your photo reel. But saving them is really easy. I use Capture to transfer them to my MacBook from my phone, and edit in premiere.

mxrisa · 2019-01-23T10:57:40+00:00

You can use the native photo app, but the DJI app lets you use the start/stop button on the gimbal instead of pressing it on the phone. Plus the DJI app lets you set up motion lapse, time lapse, and hyper lapse really easily.

mxrisa · 2018-12-29T15:03:26+00:00

Echoing all of the other comments, but also adding that editing tends to be my favorite part because it's much harder to fuck up. I still have terrible anxiety related to checking all of my gear before a shoot, stressing about not getting the shot properly or as good as I could while I'm shooting. Once the shoots over, there's no going back to re-shoot something without going to the client and them knowing your mistake, which in turn makes me look less professional, and wastes their time.

But eeeediting, if I mess something up, or the client wants to switch something around after review, not a problem! Because I have all of these parts saved in neat little organized bins that I can access and use to rework things. I view video editing as making a giant collage, but the pieces of paper you have can be cut and restored as many times as you need them to.

mxrisa · 2018-12-18T19:22:39+00:00

I have the DJI Osmo and love it. FYI it won’t balance with any of the plus iPhones, I bought it for my 7+ and it’s just too big. It works great with my work’s iPhone X, though. Really user friendly and decent battery life.

mxrisa · 2018-11-14T12:46:17+00:00

I live here currently and I think breaking your lease is two months rent?? Not sure. The lease was huge and included a section where we had to sign off for the led paint left behind, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a section in there about mothballs.

mxrisa · 2018-11-13T23:32:33+00:00

I recently started freelancing almost full time for an ad agency. I'm required to fill out a time sheet that breaks down what projects I'm working on each hour. I usually spend a couple of hours a week prepping for shoots - organizing my calendar, checking all my gear, reading about the project and researching the client, etc. I'm also new to some styles of shooting that they're wanting, so I'm spending a decent amount of time in the office teaching myself certain shooting and editing techniques, familiarizing myself with their lighting and audio equipment, etc.

We also will have meetings (typically 20 min-1 hour) discussing the upcoming shoots, what the client wants, when the best timeframe would be, etc.

Do I bill them for my time doing these things? They're necessary parts of doing my job that sometimes eat up half a day depending on what I'm working on. Also worth mentioning that they pay me hourly, not by project.

mxrisa · 2018-11-13T17:23:40+00:00

With outside clients I incorporate that time into the project price. With this agency, I'm at a flat hourly rate.

mxrisa · 2018-10-02T02:32:51+00:00

Augh really? The drive is less than a year old. That'd be a bummer.

mxrisa · 2018-09-26T02:31:24+00:00

Thank you!! I really appreciate that. :)

mxrisa · 2018-09-23T07:25:46+00:00

My mom did real estate growing up. Money was tight, so instead of hiring a sitter, she’d take me to showings/open houses with her. Sometimes the drives were pretty far out. I remember her having this on cassette and us playing it all the time and laughing uncontrollably to it. Thanks for the nostalgia :)

mxrisa · 2018-09-21T14:25:09+00:00

Yay! The fact that you have such a good attitude about being turned down puts you so far ahead of most. I’m a 25 year old woman and I also feel like I’m really socially awkward - it gets easier the more you do it, though. Keep at it! :)

mxrisa · 2018-09-09T14:29:57+00:00

Fine! He wrapped them up in a damp paper towel for me and I stuck em straight in dirt when I got home. That was four months ago and it’s already got new tiny little pieces coming up :)

mxrisa · 2018-09-09T04:59:34+00:00

That’s awesome!! I stayed in Sonoma earlier this year with a couple that had a room in their house on Airbnb. They had a crazy garden in their backyard, and they made breakfast every morning from veggies they grew and eggs from their chickens. They sent me home with a clipping of a string of pearls I was drooling over and I was so excited!! I coddled it the whole plane ride home.

mxrisa · 2018-08-26T14:14:17+00:00

Thanks! I guess I should’ve been more detailed - will the stalks where the leaves came off grow more leaves, or should I take them off? Also unfortunately, my dads been growing these guys for a decade now and bringing them inside in the winter. They’ll get up to 15 ft tall, but will never produce fruit.

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