Choosing My Future After High School | POV: A 20-Year-Old Content Creator in Bali
- Jul 8
- 2 min read
About a year ago, I graduated from high school in Sydney. Like many students, the obvious next step would have been university. Instead, I moved to Bali and gave myself one year to answer a question that I honestly couldn't answer from a classroom.
Can content creation become a real career?
This short reel is the opening scene of that experiment. In exactly one year, I'll have to make a decision: return to Australia and continue with university, hopefully leading to a stable career, or stay in Bali and keep trying to make a living by creating videos about this island and the stories it inspires.
Filmed at Kelan Beach, this moment introduces the biggest question behind the entire series. Every reel is a small piece of the same journey, documenting the uncertainty, progress, and lessons I experience before my self-imposed deadline of June 30, 2027.
If you're only watching this reel, you're only seeing the first few seconds of a much bigger story. Episode 1 explores why I decided to take a gap year, why I chose Bali, and why I'm willing to risk an unconventional path before deciding whether university is still the right choice for me.
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This reel is only the introduction to Episode 1.
Watch the full episode to discover why I chose a gap year instead of going straight to university, why Bali became the setting for this experiment, and why the next 365 days will determine whether I continue chasing content creation or begin a completely different chapter back in Australia.
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