User:JohanniclesUSA

JohanniclesUSA The chronicles of a South African/Namibian in the USA...

Life is different here. By all means. From shopping to driving, from job hunting to interviews, from education to salaries, from poverty to politics.

It seems like either I have moved to a different planet, or that my life before 2008 never existed. Yet in this new life, there is a vast array of new fields, possibilities and potential, just waiting to be discovered and experienced. So many pitfalls and hungry wolves in the shadows of glamorous offerings, so much real gold hidden among the masses of even more fool's gold. Every market exploding and mutating to a new market which immediately is exploited to the extreme by the eternal hunger for cash. Such mind-blowing technologies in every conceivable direction that it seems like every possible idea is turned into an invention and subsequently an industrial tool or commercial product that only serves to make life easier and on the downfall, makes humanity lazier by the day. Yet something hints at a people who, beneath this glamorous external facade, has a certain amount of survival instinct. A savvy combined with the will to empower. A people who is eternally ready to jump at potential opportunity and rationalize an identified necessity into a marketed source of income. Now that's what I call entrepreneurship!

So where does all of this place me?

In my former country of residence, I was considered one of the best in two fields, one being the field of television and video production and the other, that of music; Hard Rock and Metal. I arrived in USA and found a saturated market in both of my fields of expertise. No space for even a mouse. Not even answers to most resumes sent! Well, being from Africa and honest enough to say so, I bet most people who see my resume probably firstly see a red alarm with a huge banner, inscribed with large red capitals the word: SCAMMER... Oh Africa, mother Africa, why do I have to be ashamed to mention my motherland?

But life continues and feeling sorry for yourself has never healed a situation. Thus the show must go on(As old Freddy used to sing).

So back to the drawing board.

And that drawing board has been a year of gardening, thinking, looking for bands, finding some and moving on, thinking about how to engage with a career and wondering if some opportunity would knock again, as was the case with the beginning of my video production career, 11 years ago...on another planet.

So I joined a music producer and together we started a band, called Khemique. Shortly afterward I started a secondary music project called Murder Blu and invited two former band members to join me in producing good dark rock songs.

But this did not bring me any closer to a career and the search continued...

Then an idea came up. Web design...and this led to another...Domain Name invention. So I created a site, called it Domain TNT, and realized there was still so much to do...