Hello Steemit, nice to meet you

I've been posting around here for a few weeks, but I never took the time to properly introduce myself. My name is Iulian Mocanu, more commonly known on the internet as unacomn. I'm 30 years old, I'm from Romania, I really like ducks, Nightwish and the movies Starship Troopers and Excalibur.

I currently work for a website/TV show called Zon@IT covering tech and gaming, and for a Youtube channel called GamingHD run by my friend @free999enigma. In my free time I write books,  I do occasional beekeeping and act as all-round tech support for the neighborhood. 

Years and years ago, while I was still in college, I started working in the gaming press at a channel called ArenaTV. I moved from the news room to writing show scripts, game reviews and then eventually, around 2009, got to create my own shows. After ArenaTV shut down, I moved to Games-Arena, where I stayed for 5 years, making daily content with very little interference. This allowed me to create all sorts of shows, one of my pride and joys being a weekly parody news show that ran for almost 100 episodes. You can see an example of it below, though, be warned, it's not in english:

Sadly, that show wasn't too popular and since it took many many hours to make, I had to give it up at the end of 2014.  I was using the extra time to finally finish a book I've been trying to write for a few years, called Tale of Doom. At its core, it's a fantasy story about failure. I've posted a snipped of it on Steemit, if you're curious, and the Volume 1 of the book is available on Itch.io for 2 dollars.

https://steemit.com/writing/@unacomn/tale-of-doom-chapter-1-part-1

Volume 2 should be out at the end of this year. It would have been out earlier, but there was an unexpected incident in the meantime. In 2015 I got a rare disease called Guillain–Barré syndrome, which left me paralyzed for a month and with a few lingering health issues. If you want a detailed account of that, you can have a read at a guide  I wrote to help people get through it. I'll have an updated version up sometime next year.

https://steemit.com/guillain/@unacomn/how-to-survive-guillain-barre-syndrome

During this time I also had to give up working at Games-Arena. Unable to make new content, and being the main content creator for the site, the site tanked, the outside funding it relied on went away, and I was left in a very bad situation. I tried to make content for two extra months, for free, hoping to reignite interest, but I didn't have enough energy, what with being busy learning to walk again. I was lucky enough to get an offer from Zon@it, mostly writing clickbait for a year and a half. Not proud of it, but with the debt I was in after being in the hospital and not paid for two months, I needed anything I could get. Near the end of 2015, Raul, aka free999enigma, sent me his old PC, since mine was a relic from a bygone age, and we tried to see if I could go back to making videos for his channel. We tried for a month to do shows in Romanian, it didn't work out. It never worked out. I've been doing gaming and tech videos in that language since 2007, hoping to find the audience needed to sustain a web-site or a channel, but it's just not there. So since march 2015 we switched to English and never looked back. Money was tight, things were rough at the start, and Youtube did its best to make the future even more bleak, with ever decreasing payouts in spite of increased view counts. 

We were lucky enough to make content good enough and useful enough so that other people decided to support us with whatever they could, and we're very thankful to them. Making Youtube videos isn't paying the bills, which is why a day job is still needed, regardless of how depressing it can get. 

Things however started to change, thanks to Steemit. We only started posting our content here since July, but we've already managed to not only compensate for the total devastation caused by Youtubes many adpocalypses, but it's actually letting us expand. And for that I am very thankful. 

2018 looks like it's going to be a good year. Unless the disease comes back, because it can, and I don't accidentally eat something that will make me miserable (due to lacking a gallbladder now), next year should be fine. I may even not need to work at Zon@it anymore, and actually devote time to things I like, things I enjoy, things I have passion for and don't make me rethink my carrier choices. 

And if you ever need a hand with anything PC/tech related, leave me a comment, odds are I'll be able to help.