Dear Skiing community,
Hello,
I am Burr! People call me Burrski.
I live to ski. It has always been my happy place.
I have never been a strong park skier unfortunately. I have progressed some but when it came to jumps, after a certain point of trial and error I decided rails was what I enjoyed most. I do like smaller jumps just not one to go off the kickers though.
Reason being.. which I have been learning more and more about, I have a visual processing disorder so I tend to get stuck when it comes to spinning and just feel unsafe
I also have learned I struggle with more than just that.
Mentally I have struggled for a little over a decade. I have a hard time taking in stimuli. Communication has been a tough one for me. I can talk but sometimes it is hard for me to know what I want to say or even how to say it so I tend to get tongue tied. My thoughts get jumbled and I get stuck so often. I’m in the process of trying to find a better Doctor to see and may go down to Chicago for sometime and hopefully get the correct diagnoses and finally be on the road to recovery..
I am from Michigan. I am 25. In August I was working retail at an outfitter chain and I just went into mental fatigue once more. It springs on you out of nowhere and it really took me down. I know something is off. Something isn’t right in my brain and I just want it to be corrected at this point.
I used to work for my father too, doing construction and burned out from that just before I started working retail at the outfitters/ski shop.
I am ready for a change:
I know my dreams and passions.
When I realized I couldn’t progress like all of my friends I took on a different approach as I was very fascinated with film and new media. I took out the Sony handycam and started filming and putting together some edits for my homies.
Now I film with an Insta360 X3!
They are amazing cameras!
It changed the way I film completely!
I love being able to put together videos and promote the sport of skiing.
In the summer months I find myself walking trails and taking time lapse footage and videos and pictures and enjoying natures beauty though the lens!
To get to my point, since I have been out of work, I haven’t been able to take on a job once more.
I just know I need to repair myself before I try to work a job for somebody or even leave the house..
So I am stuck at a roadblock and not sure how to find even a remote job to where I can be creating content for a company that I am genuinely interested in and have some idea what I am doing/getting myself in to!
I just want to find something I can do even in the smallest form to help make some money and put videos together and maybe if I was lucky have a connection to get some good ski boots for my wide puppies that hurt to put in narrow ski boots ? anything that I can do sitting at my desk and working on my computer would be great ?? I need ideas. I need connections. I need some advice. Help me get s job going. I’m sitting here scrapping to make cash doing little projects for my neighbors and parents/grandparents but this isn’t working.
Hopefully recovery is near..
My soul can’t take this much more.
If it wasn’t the dreams I have and the love for skiing and the outdoors I don’t know how I would continue on. I have lost so many friends in the past 4 years from growing and moving around, and now being back in my hometown, I have like only maybe 4 people I can count on to be there most days..
Help a brother out ??????
Yours,
Burrski
Hello,
I am Burr! People call me Burrski.
I live to ski. It has always been my happy place.
I have never been a strong park skier unfortunately. I have progressed some but when it came to jumps, after a certain point of trial and error I decided rails was what I enjoyed most. I do like smaller jumps just not one to go off the kickers though.
Reason being.. which I have been learning more and more about, I have a visual processing disorder so I tend to get stuck when it comes to spinning and just feel unsafe
I also have learned I struggle with more than just that.
Mentally I have struggled for a little over a decade. I have a hard time taking in stimuli. Communication has been a tough one for me. I can talk but sometimes it is hard for me to know what I want to say or even how to say it so I tend to get tongue tied. My thoughts get jumbled and I get stuck so often. I’m in the process of trying to find a better Doctor to see and may go down to Chicago for sometime and hopefully get the correct diagnoses and finally be on the road to recovery..
I am from Michigan. I am 25. In August I was working retail at an outfitter chain and I just went into mental fatigue once more. It springs on you out of nowhere and it really took me down. I know something is off. Something isn’t right in my brain and I just want it to be corrected at this point.
I used to work for my father too, doing construction and burned out from that just before I started working retail at the outfitters/ski shop.
I am ready for a change:
I know my dreams and passions.
When I realized I couldn’t progress like all of my friends I took on a different approach as I was very fascinated with film and new media. I took out the Sony handycam and started filming and putting together some edits for my homies.
Now I film with an Insta360 X3!
They are amazing cameras!
It changed the way I film completely!
I love being able to put together videos and promote the sport of skiing.
In the summer months I find myself walking trails and taking time lapse footage and videos and pictures and enjoying natures beauty though the lens!
To get to my point, since I have been out of work, I haven’t been able to take on a job once more.
I just know I need to repair myself before I try to work a job for somebody or even leave the house..
So I am stuck at a roadblock and not sure how to find even a remote job to where I can be creating content for a company that I am genuinely interested in and have some idea what I am doing/getting myself in to!
I just want to find something I can do even in the smallest form to help make some money and put videos together and maybe if I was lucky have a connection to get some good ski boots for my wide puppies that hurt to put in narrow ski boots ? anything that I can do sitting at my desk and working on my computer would be great ?? I need ideas. I need connections. I need some advice. Help me get s job going. I’m sitting here scrapping to make cash doing little projects for my neighbors and parents/grandparents but this isn’t working.
Hopefully recovery is near..
My soul can’t take this much more.
If it wasn’t the dreams I have and the love for skiing and the outdoors I don’t know how I would continue on. I have lost so many friends in the past 4 years from growing and moving around, and now being back in my hometown, I have like only maybe 4 people I can count on to be there most days..
Help a brother out ??????
Yours,
Burrski
