Well, here we are. Four years later.
What a trip I’ve been on.
I’m posting this in the News section and not the blog section so I won’t get too personal or creative here, but let me just say that I’ve had a massive amount of change come my way - for better or worse.
I grew my hair out, I got engaged, I got a new job, a new film project, new writing, new apartments.
I’ll stick to the highlights for now and spread these details out into different blogs over time. Because you gotta spread out the blogs. That’s how you get more traffic!
Top highlight - business wise - has to be the new job.
I now work for a magnificent design agency called Drury Design.
I am their video editor/director/producer/animator extraordinaire!
Sure there was a time when I balked at the idea of a one-man-show position at an agency. I felt like the video industry was plagued by that all-encompassing ask for an entire decade. Every single company was asking for one person to write, produce, edit, publish, film, host, etc etc. It was a way for them to save money and exploit creatives at the same time.
Luckily Drury is nothing like that.
I remember when I was first hired how surprised and happy I was to discover actual teamwork again. I was working with fellow creatives who weren’t in constant competition with one another. Together we’ve been creating some wonderful award-winning work and I could not be happier.
I’ll likely do an entire blog post on my work with them another time.
One thing I can highlight right now though is how I got the job.
It was the middle of the pandemic, I was at home in my small rat-ridden Brooklyn apartment waiting for my bank account to run out or for the world to end (whichever came first) and a recruiter (savior) by the name of Peter Pop came to my rescue. Peter Pop - what a name. I knew it was going to be good news after I read that name. It sounds great to say it out loud. Peter Pop. I’m using his name so much, Peter Pop, because I want to see if the Google algorithms sends this out to him one day. Thank you Peter Pop!
Anyway, he reaches out to me on LinkedIn and says he thinks I would be a good fit for this company called Drury Design. They do events and communications of all kinds for brands both high and low. B2B B2C and all those different acronyms. You see, I had been working for OpenReel just before the pandemic hit so I had experience with remote video directing on iPhones and that was exactly what everyone was looking for.
So he says, “make a video like a resume piece. It’ll make you stand out better”
And of course, I took him up on it.
What else did I have to do?
I was literally going crazy inside my small apartment.
So I put together a one-minute video that was both fun and informative and guess what? They loved it!
My viewcount started to soar! They were sharing it around the entire company! I was a celebrity before I was even hired.
So they took a chance on me, gave me a contract position that soon turned to full time and the rest is history! I now consider them as close to family and I absolutely love going into work every day. I know it sounds like I’m buttering it up but I do truly enjoy when I can commute into the city and when I’m valuable to a company and to my clients. There’s nothing better than turning out good work on a daily basis.
I’m posting the video here in the hope that it inspires someone else to do the same one day.
Looking for a job can be chaotic and depressing. You have to find ways to stand out among the rest. Use what you’re good at to make an impression. I edit video and I’m pretty good on camera so I used both of those to elevate myself.
If you’re designer you can do the same by reinventing what a resume is or looks like.
That’s probably enough news for now.
After seven years I’m a bit rusty at all this.
I’ll come back and update the internet on the rest of my life a little later.
Not that anyone is actually reading this or anything.