In our time of need

"In my time of need" is a song by one of my favorite bands: Opeth, and it's hard for everyone when bad times knock the door. My family and I survived in a "devastated by corruption" country all 2018 thanks to steemit and since the sbd and steem got stuck in low prices all I could think was to leave Venezuela and go to another country trying to get a better life for me and them, but things just got harder. I was saving money for the departure and those plans included the whole three member family going out of the country, but both economies in steemit and in my country crashed so badly that the savings weren't enough, the price of food in the country skyrocket and I had to spent savings and sell some recording gear to stand and face the crysis. It's hard to keep smiling when times are hard and you must be harder to keep your family safe.

Once in Medellín, Colombia I started showing my work and trying to make small jobs but it's hard, you know, no one wants an unknown photographer or videographer and even less with a crazy face like mine. I printed some business cards and started spreading the word so a few bands, bars and music artist showed interests, but no one hired me yet for anything. At this point, everything is getting harder as the steem and sbd savings I brought got finished today.

I came with the illusion of surviving with photography, video and music making, but once here, I realized that it takes time to get recognized and the illusion of making money fast vanished slowly but firmly. But the audiovisual plans are long term now, I have to work something else in order to rent a place of my own and bring my wife and son, and here's when some friends appeared with a great idea to start our own business.

Luis and Aiskel are two old friends who want to make videos of different types and monetize them through different systems and they also want to leave Venezuela, so I'm telling them how good is this city and they decided to make the huge step of going out as soon as posible and come here. I asked them to help me bringing my wife and son with them in order to become their full time video producer, as also we are going to share the place we rent to reduce cost at first until we stabilize. But our ideas to make content go far beyond and it's something we never did in Venezuela because of the crime or economy and here it's possible to make all of the most crazy ideas we can have.

It's a terrible time for venezuelans, that's clear right know in the whole world, but there's a lot of working people and a lot of creative people that make great things, things that help others without caring about who they are or what have they done. In my case, I worked for nine years as a paramedic in Caracas, so I know what I'm talking about, I lost count of how many lives I saved and how many people I helped and that's one of the best feeling one could have in life, seeing the face of someone in an emergency situation being rescued is something that just a few people experience.

I think that's all we need to reunite as a family and start our entrepreneurship with the help of our friends Luis, Aiskel and their son Matt, starting over in this beautiful country and kind people and if you help us all you'll have a great place in our hearts and I'll figure out how to make a tribute for all of you.