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looking for jobs when you're in college
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or just graduated can be a real
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nightmare
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when i first graduated i had no idea
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what i was doing and i ended up just
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falling into this rut of doing seasonal
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job after seasonal job
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this video is going to go over pretty
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much the biggest tips that i have to
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avoid these mistakes if you're somebody
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that's interested in going into the
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federal field or just looking at it
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in this video i'm gonna give you some
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quick tips on how to not only find good
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job postings for the federal government
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but assess the quality of them
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as well as give you three cool career
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tracks that i've learned about and tell
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you what they do
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hi i'm danny and this is ecology story
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mode
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now in the federal service there's
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seasonal jobs and then there's full-time
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jobs
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if you're a recent graduate what you
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probably want to do is look at full-time
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jobs a lot of people will tell you that
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you have to go into the seasonal work
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before you do that that's complete and
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total myth
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most of the people that i've met that
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have full-time jobs in the federal
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services got their bachelor's degree and
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went straight into their full-time job
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and raised through the ranks now the
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best job services that are in the
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federal government are
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going to allow you to not only raise the
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fastest but also go the highest
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in your federal service now the first
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thing that you want to look for when you
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apply to jobs is looking for a job that
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takes you from
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five to nine or five to eleven when you
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go to the bottom of the job posting
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it'll show you all the different
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ranks that you could potentially qualify
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for now if you're just out of college
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you don't have to worry if you're only
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applying for a gs5 because what that
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shows you is what your actual increase
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in grade is going to be every single
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year so if you apply to a job that's gs
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539 or gs5 through 11
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each year you're gonna go five seven
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nine and then if you apply to one that
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has an eleven
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all the way up to eleven this has the
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benefit of taking you to a higher salary
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in the federal government at a quicker
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pace
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and allowing you to progress more the
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other thing that i think makes these job
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postings really good is that they'll
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allow you to get all the way up to the
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top
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ranks of the federal services without
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having to go back to school to get a
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master's degree
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all of these jobs by the way are going
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to have the same pay range regardless of
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which field you go into the only things
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that are really going to impact the
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amount of money you make
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on these jobs is how much you get to
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work with something like fire as well as
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where you live
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if you live in the middle of nowhere or
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really small town you're probably going
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to make about 36k
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your first year if you find one of these
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jobs in a bigger city or a bigger
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metropolitan area you can make as much
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as 50k your first year and then just
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continue to go up from there now the
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first job on this list is going to be
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natural resource specialist
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this job is for you if you like working
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on restoration projects and wetland
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areas if you want to work in riparian
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areas with
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plants fish other animals this job is
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going to give you a lot of unique
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opportunities to work with a lot of
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different
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sensitive resources and sensitive
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habitats mostly focused around wetland
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riparian areas
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sometimes mining sites and things of
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that kind what will you be doing you
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might ask
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this job is generally a 50 50 split
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between being in the field and being in
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the office
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when you're in the field you're probably
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going to be looking at things like
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surveying
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fish looking at browsing patterns in
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riparian areas
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and doing different forms of measurement
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to assess the stability of stream banks
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as well as looking at the evolution of
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streams over time
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and rivers and lakes or whatever else is
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in the area that you work the other
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fifty percent of the time you're going
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to be in the office and you're going to
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be writing up plans to do things like
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restoration projects maybe enclosures
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for areas that you think are sensitive
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and getting over-browsed or something
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as well as just looking at general
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management if there's recreation or
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grazing going on in the area
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things that can reduce the impact over
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time the second job on this list is
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going to be
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soil conservationist if you've taken a
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soils class
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that overrides on top is pretty much
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most of the work that you're going to be
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doing in this job you're going to
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perform land and soil surveys and
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your real focus is going to be working
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on one of the biggest issues that's
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plaguing the entire united states and
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the entire world
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and that's a soil loss topsoil lost
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specifically you're going to be working
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with agricultural lands because in order
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for us to get food
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we need to have organic batter in the
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soil and right now we're losing a lot of
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that
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at a depressingly fast rate and so the
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recommendations that you're going to
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make
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and the things that you're going to put
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into place are going to help prevent
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erosion
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do restoration work on agricultural land
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that allows farmers to change their
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land over to wetland or something else
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like that and gives them a little bit of
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money instead of growing crops if
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they're getting
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older or just don't want to do that
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anymore or if they're really concerned
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about conservation
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if you're passionate about the
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agricultural landscape of the united
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states and just having sustainable food
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this is a great job for you the third
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job on this list is going to be a range
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management
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slash range conservationist the two
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different names are really just
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depending on
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what location and what agency you apply
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to now this job's for you
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if you like the environment and you want
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to be a cowboy
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your main responsibilities on this job
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are going to be to look at upland botany
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and you're going to make measurements
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doing things like stubble height surveys
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and just identification
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to look at utilization by grazing from
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either cattle or other stuff depending
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on if it's wilderness or grazing land
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you're going to use this data to make
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management plans for wilderness areas as
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well as
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grazing pastures that are used by cattle
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this is an awesome job in my mind
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because not only do you get to do stuff
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like work with fire and other resources
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around the area
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also get to work with people like the
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natural resources specialist and get
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involved in things that are restoration
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plans
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and other things and you just get a
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really large scope of things that you
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get to do
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as well as just enjoying your day on the
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prairie
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for those of you that are in college and
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not in the know pretty much 30 percent
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of the u.s land mass is used for grazing
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right now
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i hope this video helps you find your
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way when it comes to looking for jobs
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and
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potentially choosing one of the federal
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services if this is the kind of video
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that you like i'm planning on making a
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lot more of these
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comment any questions or suggestions
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that you have
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like the video subscribe to my page if
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you want to see more and i hope you have
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a good day