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15/f (16 This Year)

Everyday I literally spend hours trying to take great pictures. A typical photoshoot involves choosing a camera (usually my Nikon D40), choosing a model (usually my best friend), applying her makeup, arranging several different outfits for her, setting up lighting, taking hundreds of pictures, reviewing them on the computer, arranging them into folders, cropping them, editing them, retouching. After this I send them to her and we talk about what worked well and what to try next time. Sometimes I do this for myself, because (like most teenager girls) I like to put pictures of myself for my friends to see (myspace, etc).

I never realized how much effort I put into this, it doesn't even seem like work at all. Right now I do it for fun, but could I use this as a career? I am planning to get a degree in marketing and go from there. Right now I have a 4.0 GPA (straight A's - and have for the last few years) so I can basically do anything that interests me.

Does any of this hint to a suitable career path for me? I find advertising very interesting if that helps. I also love to be creative, indepdendant and to be a leader of a group. I am also interested in trying to promote positive messages (anything that makes a person more happy, confident, comfortable with who they are, etc).

Thanks, help is greatly appreciated! =)

Sounds pretty good to me. A jobs are best when you enjoy them and take pride in what you are doing. So if you love photography and advertising, sounds like a good match :)

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I have a MacBook laptop, and I figured out how to use the iMovie thingy to make videos on my computer, but when I try to upload them to youtube, it doesn't let me.


Any help?

Make sure your video isn't longer than 10 minutes. Double check to make sure the extenison (the words that come after the . ) are compatible with the youtube site.

Good Luck

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I have been single for about 4 months now and im sick of it. I want to meet a nice guy not the rude kind i had been going for because i always ended up getting hurt. I never know how to tell if a guy is right for me. How can i meet a nice guy And how will i know when i do!?

Nice guys are the ones who don't force you to do anything. The guys that have no motive and are just flat out gentlemen. But the catch is meeting a nice guy can be hard. There is no one place to go its pretty much the luck of the draw. Mingle and from those examples of a nice guy determine the right guy from those you meet.
Good luck.

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so my bf's birthday is in a few weeks and i want to do something really surprising and special for him. i want to have a surprise party for him, but its on a wed night so it can't take very long. something just like a dinner or something w/ his friends and stuff. however, i don't want to have to pay for ALL of them. i was thinking of going to a burger stand which has outside tables... and that way everyone would just kinda get their own burgers and stuff. what do you think? or i was thinking i could wake him up in the morning and take him to breakfast and stuff..maybe have people meet us at the breakfast place before school? it'd be exciting and maybe easier but not as extravagent as a dinner. what should i do? any other ideas?

The burger idea sounds good. But don't be too cheap, maybe buy his closest friends a drink -you want to look good in their eyes too :)

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Ug so I like my ex still but only a LITTLE. I'm the one that broke up with him. And me and him stayed pretty good ffriends then I flipped on him on myspace becauase he like stopped talkin to me. But he told me he did it because he still likes me alot and I didnt know that and now i feel bad because I dont know what to do :[

You have to be honest with yourself, if you were in his position would you want to be lied to or would you want the truth? Things will work itself out. I'd say: if you have no feelings for him, just remain friends because friendship could be a lot better than relationships.

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Often times I act like I don't trust my boyfriend; even when I don't realize it. I'll check his phone and his myspace because I know he flirts with other girls, I mean he's told me he does.

Well, sometimes I get really defensive and mean to him because I'll just assume he wants to be with some other girl. How do I chill out and just be sweet to him like I used to be?

Being like that is natural. You can help being protective and wanting to be sure that its only you he loves. Just make sure to catch yourself before checking his phone or 'snooping' on him. If he's honest with you then you should trust him.
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he said, "if i still talk to you like this, then when im 18 i might want to be with you." he's 13 now and im afraid of what's going to happen in between those 5 years so if he said that now does he really love me?

To be completely honest, I don't think that he does. If he loves you, he'll love you right now not in 5 years. "I might want to be with you" doesn't sound to reassuring to me.
I think you can do much better than him :]

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