These are things I want to accomplish and projects I’m working on:
Actually make YouTube videos a priority.
Become an aquanaut, or more realistically simply visit the Aquarius Reef Base.
Travel to Europe.
Travel to Japan.
Travel to South Korea.
Narrate a film/television show.
Produce videos about local underwater species in the Seattle area.
Go skydiving.
Learn to parasail/paramotor.
Get a GUE Tech 1 certification.
Progress: I have my GUE Fundamentals Recreational Pass as of April 2016, working on my Tech pass and then on to Tech 1!
Get my work in a substantial print publication.
- Complete! June 2014 – UW Visitors Guide 2014/2015, roughly 20,000 copies. (http://stuarticulated.com/uw-visitors-guide/)
Get a job after university graduation.
- Complete! June 2014 – Received multiple job offers, accepted one as a manager/video producer at the University of Washington.
- Part Two! July 2017 – Accepted an offer to become the first Digital Content Specialist for the Sumner School District.
Shoot for a broadcast television show.
- Complete! May 2014 – Season on the Edge, NBC Sports and the World Fishing Network (possibly more).
Get my Rescue level scuba certification.
- Complete! August 2014 – Friday Harbor Laboratories
Get my Scientific (AAUS) scuba certification.
- Complete! August 2014 – Friday Harbor Laboratories
Become a volunteer scuba diver at either the Seattle Aquarium or Point Defiance Zoo.
- Complete! My first official dive show was on the 22nd of February, 2015 at the Seattle Aquarium in the Underwater Dome tank. I now have dive shows every two weeks.
Spend a full day underwater (not at once of course).
- Complete! I’ve done enough dives to easily cover this.
UPDATED GOAL: Spend a full week underwater.
- Complete! Passed this up just in my dives at the Seattle Aquarium alone as of the end of 2017.
Voice act in some capacity.
Did a little bit of this on a short film for a friend.
Go on a scuba diving trip to a foreign country.
- Complete! September 2016 – Great Barrier Reef, multiple sites