What is your day job? What is your passion project?
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    Re: What is your day job? What is your passion project?

    by musicguy » Tue Jun 21, 2016 3:07 am

    My day job is as a Network Administrator working with routers, switches, access points, Voice over IP phones, etc.

    My passion project is a weekly podcast called The Crowdfunding Christian Music Podcast where I spotlight and discuss current crowdfunding campaigns for Christian music. I know it's incredibly niche and appeals to a very tiny number of folks, but I really enjoy doing it and feel good about helping the artists get a bit more exposure for some great projects.


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    Re: What is your day job? What is your passion project?

    by Yoocris » Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:34 am

    What is my day job?
    Well, I am a teacher and I'm pretty proud of this.

    What is my passion project?
    I think the most important and passionate project of mine has been my family, so far...
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    Re: What is your day job? What is your passion project?

    by Liz » Fri Jun 24, 2016 5:39 pm

    So, interestingly enough, my dayjob is the reason I'm crowdfunding right now. I'm a marketing copywriter and the people I work for are using Kickstarter to launch a new company. So I'm working for 2-3 companies right now, which is fun because I'm learning a lot! My passion project is transmedia and interactive storytelling. I will likely not use crowdfunding to launch when I do take the leap and go into that full time, but I've definitely considered it for specific things once I've built a fan base elsewhere. It seems like crowdfunding works better when you have a pre-existing fan base (or strong network of family and friends, or strong connections to people who need/want what you're providing) so I'm always taking that into considering. I've really learned a lot by launching a Kickstarter with my current team!
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    by isofilm » Fri Jun 24, 2016 6:55 pm

    My "day job", except from studying, the last year and a half, has been filmmaking. But this winter one of my projects went terribly wrong; I travelled in Chile making a documentary, and was robbed of all my film equipment after my luggage had been held up in Europe for two weeks. So after spending all my savings on this trip, I had to go back home with no footage, no expensive equipment and no "future" for my project. So I had to start working as a kindergarten teacher again to bring in some actual cash.

    So my job has gone into now being my passion project sort of. Filmmaking. And at the moment, all I want, is to finish the documentary, which is why I have started a crowdfunding campaign! Wish me luck :)

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    Re: What is your day job? What is your passion project?

    by Aidenn » Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:31 am

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    Re: What is your day job? What is your passion project?

    by MWTM » Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:57 am

    My Kickstarter project is a full time job!
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    Re: What is your day job? What is your passion project?

    by rRyannichols » Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:31 am

    My day job is writing. I work on comics and a bit of movie stuff, but my end goal is to work in animation. My passion project is an animated series I have been shopping around here in LA.
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    by meligwe » Sat Jul 02, 2016 7:15 pm

    Hi all, my name is Manuwa, but everyone here feel free to call me Sam.

    My daytime job is full time Real Estate professional. Pretty straight forward...I am in the business of helping people purchase homes. It is fulfilling and enjoyable.

    I love ALL THINGS ENTREPRENEURIAL. It is a very interesting subject. I enjoy meeting different individuals who are achieving their goals.

    At the moment I am working on a passion project with a business partner. We are in the midst of creating a gym bag and looking to launch Kickstarter soon. We've never done a KS and are contemplating on doing a test run with a different product to get feel of what to expect. What are you guys thoughts about going through the KS process?

    Thanks,

    Looking forward to connecting.
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    Re: What is your day job? What is your passion project?

    by Justyna-sensei » Tue Jul 26, 2016 2:38 pm

    Hello, my name is Justyna and I used to be an English teacher and then a copywriter. I love the English language. Unfortunately, both professions failed to make me happy (although I've been told I'm good at what I do), so one day I just quit.

    I've always loved Japanese animation and video games. Now, I'm making my own game (a visual novel), living off my savings (so far), and have never been happier. I've been making the game for a couple of months and finally finished the demo. When people write to me how much they love it and how funny it is, I feel that all this risk was worthwhile :)

    So, in conclusion, my day job is my passion project now.
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    Re: What is your day job? What is your passion project?

    by Hanlie » Fri Aug 05, 2016 9:50 am

    Hi All

    My name is Hanlie Winterbach - I am a large carnivore conservation researcher in Botswana. I am passionate especially about lions and the Okavango Delta in Botswana - we developed and managed a long-term lion monitoring project there for 10 years, and have had the most amazing experiences and got to know some really amazing lion - each with their own personalities (did you know they have unique personalities? They sure do!). Now I am based in Maun (miss my camp and lions, terribly) - one cannot actively helpconserve large carnivores if you are sitting in a camp having fun with following lions, unfortunately. The biggest contribution one can make is to be involved in human-large carnivore conflict with local farmers - so that is what we are doing now. You can check out my profile on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile ... ic_profile
    Thank you for letting me be part of your amazing crowd!

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