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hey guys jon rettinger here and i'm back with a viewer mail bag so for this round of the viewer mail bag I've actually pre-screened for questions these are all recent ones that were asked within the past week so let's go ahead and get started the first one here is from user submissive Dean he's asking about custom banners question reads hi John I've noticed a lot of your directors and have custom banners up and I was wondering how I could put up a channel banner or a banner on top of my username in my videos Thanks what's a very easy answer it's actually a question that I'd get quite a bit you have to be a youtube partner in order to get the channel branding features so that means the bar on top of my page or the banner that shows up when you're looking one of my videos you have to be a youtube partner I made a video a little while back about how to be a youtube partner if you want to go ahead and check that for references so I hope that answered your question submissive Dean all right the next one we've got is from the skin asking about battery life hi how much battery life while you're getting with your macbook aluminum so on my macbook aluminum I always have the brightness turned all the way up I hate looking at an on bright screen I am Bluetooth turned off and wireless always on in this doing standard web browsing I generally get close to three hours of battery life which is actually just about what apple claims battery life on the macbook has been really impressive I do keep it very well calibrated and you for asking how to calibrate your battery all you have to do is let it drain all the way so when it starts to say turn off your computer powers running low let it keep running make sure you save everything computer will eventually turn itself off or actually put itself to sleep once it's a nap mode plug it in I'll it in charge I'll way back up to one hundred percent so that goes from 0 to 100 to get really limited battery memory so you have to get your full capacity actually your bill to see how much value if you actually have it'll be a more fair fair representation of what you have so I taken calibrator battery I hope that answered your question the next one moving light or wrong is from Kevin McGovern 777 this is actually a bit of a long one but it's a question that I get quite a bit and it's about my job and education hey John great channel for starters that's not the point in this message I'm just curious if you have time to answer this and if you could answer a few questions so yes I do with time and I'm going to answer it for you right now I'm 16 met the point where I want to start deciding what I want to do with my life technology really interests me so what I was looking into is i.t a lot something that really started addressing me was management whether i tier business but for some reason I started to find that more appealing but I was curious since you seem like a very happy guy which I am what did you go to university to study and as I understand your graduate school now and what are you studying there lastly what exactly is your job a position at the moment while you go through graduate school I would assume in order to get higher up Jen don't have time to answer his personal information that's fine out of any connections at this point in my life and he goes on a little bit flip the end of the questions so actually I made a video a little while back for inside John's mind where I answered kind of what I do in my education I'll give you guys a kind of a brief synopsis so I'm from Southern California but I did my undergraduate degree or my university degree is those in Europe and abroad call it at the University of Rochester an upstate New York and I'm California upstate New York big climate difference but it was a great school and I was really happy to be there I got a degree in religion in classics essentially was a history degree and from there he wasn't sure what I wanted to do I've always been fascinated by what motivated people so right out of school I tried to look for something that I could use that sort of motivational tool with I kind of had in my head that I want to be an attorney so or a lawyer so I studied for my lsat switch are the entrance exams for law school and do well enough to to get in and I applied and my parents convinced me before I went to law school to work in a law firm for a year and I fought them on it to the nail and in retrospect I'm so thankful that they did tell me that cuz i realized law wasn't for me it's a great profession was just too big a time commitment and it was too big of an uphill battle and I couldn't see the top of that hill from where I was and I'm the kind of person always needs to be be moving up and see where you're going and see the next step and it was just too hard to see that as an attorney so I kind of reevaluated what I wanted to do and I was fortunate enough to go back to my liking of finding my motivated people and I got a job at the very bottom of an ad agency this ad agency is actually one of the biggest ones in the country they were doing all the ad work for one of the largest automotive manufacturers and I was what was called a floater which is essentially an assistant to the entire firm I made appointments for executives I would make airline reservations aiwa mean I would do any sort of small job that needed to be done it wasn't putting my degree to good use I wasn't really learning but I was kind of seeing the bigger picture so I was fortunate enough to do that for about three or four months and ended up getting promoted a few times before I knew it I was doing advertising work for the automotive company and it was a lot of fun and really great experience I was living in Los Angeles at the time and I'm from Orange County which is about 45 minutes down south I wanted to move back home so I ended up getting a job at a fanta technology company doing marketing it was a small very small company with a really limited staff so I was able to do responsibilities and do jobs that really go get a chance to do as a junior level person since there's no one else to do them I always volunteered and because that unique experience I was able to kind of rise up that ladder a little bit it's eventually where I was actually running the marketing department and it was kind of at that point what i realized that i was going to need some more skills to run a business and run you know one day my own company so i decided that i want to go to graduate school to get my master's degree and that's what i'm doing right now is I'm getting a master's degree it's called an MBA and masters of business administration from a local university right buying a university of california school so doing it at night doing the videos and trying to find my own way like the rest that you guys are so hope that answered your question need a little bit of history of kind of what I've done for a job in education the advice I can give you is education is the most important thing make sure you get your degree you might not see it now how important is you might say one epic biology I'm never going to be a doctor it's not always for you but it's how other people might view you so if you're going for a job and looking at your resume and they don't see a college degree they might think you don't have the wherewithal to stick with something it just is a good representative representation of you that you can stick with something and that you have a foundation to learn from so that's that's my advice sorry to get all preachy on you there guys the next question is back to technology this is about the iphone the next generation this is from evan mixon john i currently have the 3g iphone i'm going to upgrade to the new one it's supposed to be coming out in june or july i have 400 141 contacts on my iphone 3g what's the quickest way to move them to the new iphone this is a really easy answer itunes take your iphone 3g plug it into itunes sync up your contacts whatever the new one comes out whenever that might be plug it in hit sink and all your contacts will be there nice and easy so guys it's just a short edition of your mail back i'm using my hands locker in this presentation anyway hope you enjoyed this keep sending your questions and i will keep doing the viewer mail been can't always respond to all of them but i certainly do read them so i'll see you guys the next one for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter com / John for lakers by guess