Smilerbull
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
Joined Jun 2013
Member #1,482,602
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Erm... Hello... is anybody out there?
Well, I never thought I'd see the day that I'd once again be terrible at posting journal messages on the RT website. This is all for now. But I'll be back... sometime.
Thoughts of the last year (while sat on a train home)
So it’s just under a year since I last posted a journal entry on here. (I think that shows my thoughts of the current community site but that’s not what this is about.)
So let’s look back at the last year and also kill some time on this train journey.
Work wise was pretty stagnant up until December when I got accepted onto a talent development program. This program is all about helping develop the next generation of managers in my department. Now I work for the uk government so it’s not easy to progress into management. So hopefully this will lead to something down the line.
My other work that I do on weekends has progressed nicely and I’m now lead commentator for the VRS iRacing GT World Championship series. It was really surreal to have Formula 1 megastar Fernando Alonso tweet a video of him watching and hearing my voice coming out of his tv.
I’ve also started streaming my own racing on my YouTube channel (YouTube.com/Smilerbull) and it’s great fun when I get people interacting with me during races. I’m up to 91 subscribers (at time of writing) which is nice. I wanna hit that 100 mark by July and then set myself further growth goals after hitting that mark.
Last year I was a guardian at the inaugural RTX London, working on one of the response teams. Was an unbelievable weekend meeting so many people from the community and to see old friends as well.
So what does the rest of this year have for me? Well I’m starting to look at setting up as a freelancer for my esports role (and get myself a uk press card at some point)
I hope I’m selected as a guardian again for this years RTXL (I haven’t heard when writing this)
I hope that my work development continues and I move up a grade into lower management.
I could also do with getting fitter as I’ve let myself go quite a bit these last 12 months. I’m trying to cut out all unnessesary sugar from my diet to help with that and need to set myself a simple excersise program to help lose some of that weight.
And finally I am determined to use my journal more this year. I think I’ll have to set myself a reminder at least once a month to put something here, even if it’s just a photo of something from the last month.
Anyway tldr: I’m still here, just a little fatter.
Yes thats me acting all silly
So I had my advertising first voice over gig.
Hey everyone, Paul here.
So a while ago I was asked by iRacing to provide a voice over for their new season of World Championship series. They finally released that advert today. I must say that it took about 20 takes of me flubbing worse than Ryan before we got the end product.
If you want to you can watch it here.
So it's my birthday today
33 years old..... no one celebrates that birthday though. Just another 7 years before i can have a party again.
RTX London
Let me introduce to you one of your guardians......... ME!! I expect many hugs or high fives from all you sexy people attending.
Me and my broadcast colleague Wil Vincent at Autosport 2017
Me at Autosport 2017
Words to live by
Never get embroiled in an argument with a fool. He'll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
It's been a while
Hey everyone.
So yeah it's been a while since i last posted a journal on here. How is everyone?
So what have i been up to since i last posted on here, well i'm into the last part of my sim racing season. Just 5 more weeks of racing that started all the way back in March. I still have the chance of winning the Amatuer championship so fingers crossed i get some really good results.
Other than that it's been back to work, helping the lovely British public....... honest they are.
And finally i've been getting back involved a lot more with RT Radio and had my first setlist in a long while a couple of weeks ago. Get yourself over there for great music and chat.
Anyway gotta go.
Take it easy everyone.