They say that for professionals, especially those who belong in the creative industry, having a portfolio is a must. For years, I've neglected making one. Although I already made a blogspot site with a portfolio-style layout and I already have it hosted (.pro) for a couple of months now, I still haven't really done anything with it. But just this day, I realized that I'm not getting any younger and although I'm still struggling with my profession - learnings, politics within, creative application, and so on - I know that those reasons shouldn't hinder me and I need to start manning up.
Although it's not that big of a move, I decided to work on my portfolio site and so far I've managed to publish around 28 projects I've worked on - either as a designer, planner, modeller, renderer, or all of the above. Even when not all the projects published have been materialized, I realized that showcasing what I'm capable of is like going one step towards the right direction.
Now let's just hope I'll get to land more projects soon so the posts here will add up, or if it won't happen sooner than how I want them to, then at least I'll have something which I can reference to for professional 'credentials' of some sort.
Aside from working on my portfolio, I've also decided to work on my blog site. I started it around 2014 and became inactive during 2016. Even though it mostly contained OOTDs, I'm really into clothes and fashion before btw, but after a while, I just loved dressing up to a certain extent and I kinda lost the part of me that was really "colorful", so yeah. There may still be a couple of outfit posts every now and then, but I want my blog to be more about my life, maybe not that inspirational, but something which can just be relatable, even though I don't expect it to have a wide reach.
It was actually hosted on a .com before, but someone already bought that domain that's why I decided to host it on .xyz, aside from sort of aligning with my nonconformist nature, the .xyz domain is actually really cheap, if I remember it correctly, it only cost me around $3 for a year.
Maybe there will be a few times where my steemit posts will align with my blog posts, but I'll really try to treat them differently. I'll produce contents for both platforms in different ways so there will be "something in store" for both my steemit content and my blog content. It won't sit well with me knowing that I failed in delivering anyway.