Topic: Neil Young - The Losing End

Hi,

I'm back with new things :

Firstly, a new cover, The Losing End (one of my favorite Neil Young song, with Comes a Time smile )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwU1hziIt-w

I also want to talk about a Facebook page I created :
https://www.facebook.com/CurtisKrumm.Music/

On this page, I only write in french, because I'm Belgian (but half American and proud of my roots big_smile), but Facebook told me it's gonna be translated automatically.

I also created 2 WordPress sites (one in french, the other one in english, I'll share the english one for you) :
https://curtiskrumm.wordpress.com/

The thing is that I'm unemployed once again! I keep applying for jobs that match my skills, but in the same time I think I could earn few bucks with my music. Belgium, and Europe, in general have a big unemployment rate (while the US has +/- 5% of unemployment rate, it reaches 25% in my area, it's even worst among people under 30 years old...

For those wondering, I studied Logistics (succeeded the second year, couldn't do the last year because I failed accounting test during the first year, while I succeeded accounting test in the second year, crazy! Sometimes teachers let you pass the following year with a failed test during the previous year... The worst, in the 2nd year, I had my global percentage and succeeded every single lessons, according to the rules of that school, they can't block you like they did to me. Last time I checked my first year accounting results, they were plenty of V (for good answers), the teacher couldn't even tell me why she noted me so down...), I speak 3 languages fluently : French, English and recently Spanish (I'm doing my 4th years in a night school), I also speak a little bit dutch, 15 months of experience in an administration, but it seems it's never enough here... I've heard, in the US, people tend to hire based on skills, but here we tend to hire on experiences or diplomas, it's also important to know somebody working in the company where you apply... (I even apply for jobs without any high skill required, but it seems I don't have enough experience peeling potatoes... )

As I already mentioned, I'm waiting my visa to live in the US (it's not because my father is a US citizen that I automatically have the US citizenship, the prob is that my father lives outside the US for a long period, I'm over 21, so I have a different family visa, normally I could live in the US in 2021)

Well, I know it's not that easy, my first official date (in june) gonna be a free concert, but I guess I could survive thanks to music someday. My goal is not to be a superstar, I know there's more talented people, it's only to earn money and doing something I enjoy, I don't want to only apply and wait for a negative reply (or no replies at all).

[url]https://soundcloud.com/curtis-k-music[/url]

2 (edited by Peatle Jville 2018-02-11 11:37:10)

Re: Neil Young - The Losing End

That is a good cover Curt. Good luck with your job hunting.and I hope your USA future work out.. The USA has been good to my family that has lived there.

Re: Neil Young - The Losing End

Nice work, love the Emily the Strange guitar smile

CurtRHCP wrote:

I also want to talk about a Facebook page I created :
https://www.facebook.com/CurtisKrumm.Music/

On this page, I only write in french, because I'm Belgian (but half American and proud of my roots big_smile), but Facebook told me it's gonna be translated automatically.

It didn't translate for me ... sad

-[ Musician, writer, guitarist, singer ]-
Bandcamp     https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Discogs          https://www.discogs.com/release/29065579
YouTube         https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMortimerMusic

Re: Neil Young - The Losing End

Hi,

Thanks!

Mmm weird, because I accepted the google translations ^^

USA is pretty good for my US family too. My parents want to leave Belgium too, the US is an opportunity (easy to move there, my mother can easily have her visa, even if the US citizen is abroad, there's no impact on Spouse visa, same for children under 21, but it's better to do it before 18, I won't explain all the details, you'll have an headache big_smile And there's exceptions, eg : people talked me about Puerto Ricains becoming US citizen in a snap, but Puerto Rico is a US State unincorporated).

I'm also thinking about living in Spain (before living in the US).
Except during tourism season, jobs opportunities aren't that good... They also have those tensions between regions who wants to secede from Spain,  it's not the best choice tongue

A friend I met during Spanish classes is actually working in Australia, there was an agency filing the documents for them (her husband, her baby and her), she'll come back next week... Apparently everything is fine. Everyone is leaving Belgium ahahah... A teacher I know is now in Switzerland, I have plenty of examples, all of them are good people ^^

[url]https://soundcloud.com/curtis-k-music[/url]

Re: Neil Young - The Losing End

CurtRHCP wrote:

Mmm weird, because I accepted the google translations ^^

I checked my settings in FB, and it said it would auto-translate to English (I'm guessing where possible), and some of the people whom I'm friends with write in Hokkien and Mandarin - I get the Chinese symbols with a link at the end to translate ... but they are comments on posts, rather than the posts themselves, maybe that's the difference .. ??

Cheers

Richard

-[ Musician, writer, guitarist, singer ]-
Bandcamp     https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Discogs          https://www.discogs.com/release/29065579
YouTube         https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMortimerMusic

Re: Neil Young - The Losing End

I enjoyed your cover of this song ...............well done and agree, Neil Young is great.  Keep up with the music Curt, you are good at it smile

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