 Question one has been asked by Dre, 9085, 9085, thank you Dre, he has asked or she, what got you into photography and teaching maths, so what got me into photography, I realised that I've always really been into it, it's just, I never had a time where I could really focus in and channel my energy right into it, so yeah it just happened when I got injured from footy and I couldn't play for a year because I tore my ACL and had a reconstruction, so I got a DSLR end of 2014, started 2015, that's when I started shooting landscapes and then yeah grew from there. What got me into teaching maths, funny story, so I finished my university degree at the end of 2017 and I, well I just started hustling and trying to find relief jobs and then I found one at Balladura Community College, shout out BCC, hi guys, and I started doing relief and then at the start of term two, I did two weeks teaching year eight, this was last year, year eight maths, so any students that are currently in year nine, BCC, I probably taught you that maths, if anyone's from that maths class, I don't know any of their names, it's like ages ago now, over a year ago, so many students. Anyway, I came up with a thing called the accountability sheet, now I know that Gary Vee has been talking about it recently, like heavily the accountability stuff, but back then trust me I did not know who he even was and I discovered that the way to get the students to work is to keep them accountable somehow and I created an accountability sheet. Now keeping the story short for this one, the accountability sheet was to pretty much check off where they were up to at the start of the lesson and then check off where they got up to at the end of the lesson and that seemed to work very well because I just said that to the main teacher and he was like, bro you got these guys to work, nice. And then after that I got booked out for the rest of the term at the school and they liked me and they said that I had good behaviour management skills and also they learnt the stuff they needed to learn and then before the end of the term they offered me a contract, one term, so term three 2018 at BCC and they offered me a couple of senior school year 11 and year 12 maths classes and those were challenging because some of those students were quite like tough or not tough but like entitled and also they didn't really care. Now I managed to turn some of them around and it was my first year of like out of the job out into the workforce as a teacher post graduation and then you know we were wrapping things up towards the end of term three and I'm just like I wonder how term four is going to go because normally Relief people aren't hired in the last term because of all these all these elements like year 12's are finished up, year 11's are halfway done and they don't really need Relief teachers because the staff that lose the load of the senior kids just take up Relief teaching. So that's what happened and oh that's what I was like okay this is going to happen. Then a few other things that I'm not going to mention and on the last day on the second last day of term three the administration came up to me and said hey can we speak to you in the office and I'm just like okay and then they offered me a contract again they offered me term four full term like 10 weeks and I was just like what really like yeah like I'm keen however one week one week prior to that the school another school called Joseph Banks Secondary College had a matz a position available and my fiance's friend whose boyfriend works out as a matz teacher and I know him already like we've we've mingled a little bit and he got the job there like already and so he talked me up into it and also by luck I'd say it's luck the head of matz there's also Eastern European so we already had that connection because I'm from Russia she's from poor Romania and yeah like we bonded hard and it was like it was like a walk-in easy five-minute interview and then I mean I didn't know any of that at the time obviously but what had happened was back at Balladura Community College I just said to them hey guys I accept your offer however give me 24 hours I have one interview one interview at another school and the only difference is that that interview is for a permanent position now one term contract where you're no idea what's going to happen post that contract and not getting anything for six weeks over the school holidays versus permanent job so I was like yeah I'm going to go for this interview and see what happens three hours after the interview the principal called me and she said we'd love to have you you're welcome aboard and I'm just like good thanks so yeah I've got the job and spent my last day at Balladura and yeah it was it's just it's just how it is it just how it happens I did say to Balladura I said hey guys I will accept a permanent job if you upgrade it from a contract right now and unfortunately they weren't in a position to do that and that's not my fault or anything that's not you know it's just life is so so for any kids watching from Balladura I didn't lose my job there I didn't quit I didn't leave because I hated the school I love the school you guys are awesome but for a career choice it was the smarter option to go for a permanent position and getting a permanent position first year out of uni is is unheard of like it's goals especially not without going to countries so yeah um thanks for the question Dray that was a great one there's a story about last night's stream um we hit 100 viewers for the first time I've already been streaming live on tiktok for about a week and this is my fourth episode I didn't record last yesterday's episode regrettably however we did get a couple of screenshots thanks to a few people Harry and Rhiannon got the screenshots to me first of my 75 online milestone and my 100 online milestone so I guess it's upwards and onwards from here we're cruising currently at 55 online and I mean it would be great to get up to 100 again that'd be that'd be dope but it's like a milestone you've hit it now I'm like cruising at mid 50s and like 50 people are watching me live that's crazy that's crazy and a week ago nobody knew who I was and I'm also getting instagram messages saying love your stuff you're inspired I mean this is what I want to do this is this is goals this has been goals forever um you know the kids at school and I told my year 7s today that I'm not going to be a full-time teacher next year they were pretty sad about it and and as as as much as it breaks my heart you know like I've got to do me first I want to see what I want to do if it's exactly what I want to do if I go and give it a go and do my photography and videography full-time and it is for me then I'll pour teaching in the back pocket it's always going to be there but until then I need to know otherwise it'll be sorry the flight flew into my thing as I did that and pinched it bye bye but yeah I need to know I need to scratch that itch otherwise I feel like I might resent myself and regret it you know what I mean so yeah just an update for you 100 people have viewed me at the same time and last night we got up to 1100 people across the one hour that have tuned into me lord harrah harry one of the ogs has asked me um what's the one thing that people misunderstand about you so back when I was a footy player um a footy player um I played in the waffle for eight years and uh you know you get you get into the scene and you get into like the um the culture and and then they start labeling you as a footy guy a footy boy a typical footy guy who you know um uh fools around and isn't really serious with their relationships and stuff like that there's so many like cliches and stereotypes and I didn't like it I didn't like the fact that I would um meet someone at uni and talk to them and they're like oh oh you play you play footy uh you know there's other people obviously they're like oh you play footy that's awesome you know um but yeah I um I was always labeled as Wilson I was always labeled as a footy player the typical footy player and I'm like I don't like that but the fact is um I didn't like to really go out after footy I was sore and I wanted to go home or as the boys always went out always and I just wanted to rest up and chill out play video games do my thing um but this is before I did uni this is before I did in my photography and then yeah I focused I focused I didn't drink that much at all I still don't really do that either and that's when I really improved my footy craft and then uh obviously injury came in and stuff like that but um yeah I um my my biggest misunderstanding is when people label me something I'm not and yeah people spread rumors about you and now I'm like eh it's not really a bother like if someone thinks something about me I'm like you don't know me you don't know me what you're saying what you're saying comes it down let's have a chat let's get to know each other and then see if your opinion is the same still um but the other thing as well and this is a good bit of advice to you guys is if someone ever um talks bad about you and spreads rumors about you and they're not open minded to talk to you in person one on one um then it's really not worth the battle because you're never going to get through to them they personally want to attack you for some reason they're using their time to try and waste your time now that is a complete waste of time so yeah and that's when I figured that out that fear or that um one thing that people misunderstand about me that was eventually my fear I was just like no that's their problem and I might the end thank you Harry for that question Kevys Island uh hang on Kev good thanks Kevys uh asked me what is the most important thing you've learned from your students um I mean going back to last year I taught a few tough students from other schools and they taught me um by like by by design um to be more persistent I've always had confidence I've always had um patience and uh but yeah persistence is definitely another one which is kind of similar in the same category as patience but yeah persistence so not giving up on that student like I'd never lose my patience I'd raise my voice last resort but then that's it and then uh yeah persistence works because later later on those students become like they want to be involved um they're like oh this teacher's actually not that bad because when you leave then they realize oh damn he's actually that he's actually decent and then they'd message me on instagram and stuff after they graduate and ask if I can be their reference true story so persistence with those students and I do tell them this in my class right now even today I said to a student don't be a bin kid because one day if you put in the effort and you want a refer referee yeah referral for a job I'll I'm happy to give you a referral but you have to put in the effort here and you can't be lazy because if you are that's what I'm gonna say to them oh hey yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I told him last year yeah he was quite lazy and didn't really get the work done so yeah sorry to bust you to kill your vibe but yeah and um he's not really that motivated and he gets to he doesn't really get the work done last minute hang up right films the future 15 has asked me what is my favorite movie and favorite scene my favorite movie of all time and I can tell that it's my favorite movie because anytime it's on air which actually like every six months is the Shawshank Redemption and my favorite scene is also from that movie it's more a narration towards the end of the movie where um the main character um Andy says get busy living or get busy dying now I'm starting to think that it wasn't actually Andy I'm thinking it was red which was played by Morgan Freeman one of the goats of acting um greatest of all time and he yeah one of them two said get busy living or get busy dying and that's stuck with me forever because you know if you're doing nothing are you actually living you know and you can relate that as as students as kids um at school like yeah you don't want to be at school but what else can you do can you get a job can you get a full-time job year 7 year 8 year 9 probably not it's not you should you should stay at school year 10 yes but are you ready do you think you're ready there's a lot of students out there who are in year 10 who are not ready but who are not made for the school system and you will figure that out pretty quickly but once you finish school or once you get out of school it's no longer a holiday you gotta pay taxes you gotta you gotta work hard and you can't talk back to your boss you can't be late if there's uniform required you have to be perfect every time and it's not even about uniform it's about safety equipment especially if you're leaving school early because it's probably most likely a trade and if it's a trade then it's definitely have to be uniform you have to wear a flannel t-shirt you have to wear protective gear you have to wear steel cap boots otherwise you get hurt and if you get hurt you can't work and if you can't work you don't get paid if you don't get paid you don't eat that's it get busy living or get busy doing so right now if you're a student you're watching this get busy learning the things that you need to learn and if you find it irrelevant well hey we do that we take the else sometimes but sooner or later one day one day it will come back i'm a perfect example and i'm not saying this will happen to you but maths wasn't my favorite subject i had tutoring in maths for high school i was terrible and it clicked it started to click but i was like once i finished that i think god that's over you know finished my year 12 got my waste and the way i went and then years later i'm a maths teacher funny that um am i the best maths teacher yeah i could probably know more about maths and different tactics but you know it's problem solving and that's what i relate my my my maths learning to i can go through every single subject and tell you how it's relevant to you in real life but the main thing is is effort if you learn how to do effort there's always going to be parts of a job that you you're doing whether it's a working at mac is whether it's working in retail whether it's a job of your dreams there's always one aspect of a job that you won't like as much as the rest and you have to do it anyway regardless and you have to learn how to do that so when you're at school and you've got a crappy subject that you really don't like you've got to put up with it and you've got to learn how to deal with it okay because one day if you do well um you'll be able to have that persistence that patience and all of the stuff that i've been talking about that i've achieved because i've just put my head down and did it okay um is the school system perfect no they're developing it they're evolving slowly but at the same time you know um find something that interests you and if you can't then you're not looking hard enough and you've got to try a million different things before you can knuckle down and be like this is my jam right here this is my passion i'm going to go for it thank you for the question what makes me feel accomplished uh by lord harrah um what makes me feel accomplished the thing that gets me going the thing that makes me feel accomplished is the fulfillment that i receive from the other person involved so let's say um if a student learns something that day and they go oh i get it now and then they just go quick and they have a smile on their face that's that's my sense of accomplishment but for me personally with everything that i'm doing i celebrate my winnings but i never really feel accomplished because for me every day is always day one i don't stop i mean i go on holidays and take breaks and stuff but when i get back to it i don't stop i'm i'm like yep start again yep start again cool i've reached the next level yep it's day one again let's go again so yeah thank you so the next five minutes we go super quick and i answer every question and i put that on um the live uh youtube episode and i'll mention every username that answers a question big or small here we go three two one let's do it the halloumi for uh the hallouminati 14 says will you have a new year's resolution for 2020 i already have one right now and it's a seven-day turnaround for all my photography jobs how much money do you make as a teacher i make 2100 a week uh a fortnight after tax what keeps you motivated for photography um the motivation to improve to excel and also when i post my photos people like people like you know that's that's my motivation motivational sort of stuff uh do you want a son yes i do i want a daughter as well i want the whole collection who is the worst afl team in your opinion probably currently the gold coast son uh what motivates you to continue doing teaching the kids best thing about photography the traveling besides perz what state would you like to live in um brrr brisman or melwood um thank you i've guys i forgot to mention your names can you make a tiktok with your year sevens on the last day of school yes i will tom uh kevies are the said do you have kids no um would uh would you put them in your tiktoks absolutely um as a class do you like the mcu uh no idea what that is um team gather says i love you i love you too uh camera and mcderman says would you travel around australia yes but i wouldn't travel by car um harry do you play golf uh i do i have played golf before i played a few nine holes with a few peeps i like going to the driving range too would you ever grow uh full beard says joel yes i would and i have before previously um no no no no no oh marvel cinematic universe yeah one of my friends works for disney and we talk about all the time um bad apples what motivates you to die you already asked that question and feels we future 15 what was your too many comments what was your scariest thing you saw in the car probably someone running across the road real quick um what's your favorite shoe brand by joel uh jordan's we're in australia i've driven to the room i've been to all the cities are you strong yes how do you deal with a bad teacher i just do my own thing um sorry guys these questions are going super quick um favorite brand of car and breed of dog favorite brand of car probably vault swag and breed of dog probably boxer um disney park's character would you want to play probably goofy um or daffy duck what's your favorite tub dog boxer favorite tv show prison break or suits how long have you been teaching two years show us your shoes i agree camera let's show us these people these shoes