How I got my dream job (and you can too)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- How I got my dream job making videos for Flo Multizine back in 2004-2006. We worked with Underoath, Bam Margera, Queens Of The Stone Age, Quiksilver, Element and tons of other music/action sports names from back then.
Here's how I got the job, and how you can use the same approach to get YOUR dream job!
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Just dropping a comment to hopefully boost your magic UA-cam algorithm. Solid video brother.
Much appreciated!
Good content man. Put the work in and share it with others. Easy in theory, most don't have the nerve to do it.
Exactly- thats really all there is to it
Dammit man. All the stuff you're staying is on point. I'm in the UK. Where I was living (Coventry) nothing was happening. Moved to Leeds where I'd been to uni. Didn't pan out, moved back to Coventry, going back to college in Birmingham (few miles away) and now just working on random articles and doing videos for them. Hoping it'll work out haha
Also been doing a podcast with my friend (it was his idea) which honestly has helped me keep my depression at bay (somewhat)
Man, your videos are so good, it's very evident that you know exactly what you're talking about
such an awesome video man! I had a hug problem with entitlement when I got out of school. I felt like I did my time, got my degree, I deserve a job and that isnt life. It took me two and a half years of totally redeveloping my portfolio and working on my skills to land my first job. It took me applying to all sorts of job postings and cold calling / emailing agencies. And then the ball rolls with real world experience. This video is so on point, no giving up, its a numbers game. Keep asking, keep improving, and eventually someone will say yes! Keep the video's coming my dude!
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So stoked for this new channel! I love your usual music content but tbh this is the kinda stuff I want to see the most so I'm super glad this channel exists!
Chase Jarvis that fucker was gifted since day one, he got me into coke and photography.
Finn your content is on fucking point my dude. Good taste and knowledge on music. You definitely deserve all this success, I look forward to future projects. 🤘🏿
Great stuff man, didnt know that's how you broke into the media world! Definitely feels like the same format works now, and must be why your summit presentation 2018 aligned with this so heavily
This is super inspirational. Also love the chill uncut/unscripted format.
Thank you!
Finn, only just found out you had a second channel but loving this extra content. Thank you for everything that you do!!
I really appreciate you sharing your wealth of knowledge and insight. I think so many people are scared to just start and don't know where to begin and are afraid of the initial rejection. Hearing these kind of stories really help lay it out in a digestible way that really helps ingrain the vision of the process.
Getting rejected is never fun- but its part of the deal, you know? I just look at it like every no brings me one step closer to yes
@@FinnMckentyPRMBA totally. You get to the point where you getting a "no" us almost as good as a yes, cuz it still serves as a learning opportunity. Where as doing nothing...still serves as nothing
I'll be honest, I'm not sure who you are, but I found this video looking up Flo Multizine and I'm really glad I took the time to watch it. Really solid advice in this video.
Awesome, thank you for watching!
I know this is an old video, the advice in this video is very true. And something that I'm putting into practice now for becoming a programmer
I think this qualifies as anecdotal “life coaching.” Appreciate the channel, man🤘🏼
I think you need to promote this channel on the punk rock one a little more. there should be WAY more people over here.
Gonna wait until i have a couple more videos on here then i will!
Edit: yo my b, this comment became an essay lol idk, I love this kinda sht and I just get motivated and I talk too much lol
I really enjoyed this video and found it inspiring. 20 years ago, I would've loved to have someone tell me these things, but hey, prison ain't no fairy tale haha but anyway, through time and hard work I've gotten to a point in my life where I'm doing great now.
I became immersed and eventually good when it came to sales and selling myself to get what I needed to get ahead, and it can be discouraging at times, but I pushed through it, and it helped me finally break out of the world if retail and the food service industry (I waited tables and bartended in my early 30s and in my mid to late 20s) I worked retail and I hated it and for years thought that I'd be stuck in these fields of work for life.
Courage and impulsiveness to a degree (the right kind of impulsivity) is how I finally managed to go to college (courage to try and accept failure in the name of reaching success, and impulsiveness as in one day I just said to myself "I'm gonna go register and go back to school" on a whim, and in an instant I did it while it was fresh in my mind and while I had the motivation (and the dissatisfaction I had with my life i.e. working dead end jobs) and I got in my truck and just did it.
Now I am on winter break and will start my final semester in mid January 2022 where I'll be doing my practicum, which is like an unpaid internship. Oh, my degree is in chemical dependency counseling; I am a recovering heroin addict and alcoholic, been clean for two years and 8 months, so it's a field and lifestyle that I'm passionate about and could talk about forever (almost to a fault lol) and so I'm this 🤏🏿 close to becoming an LCDC (Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor) and getting those letters behind my name-a lot of hard work, studying, TONS of public speaking and reading and writing, which thankfully I'm a good public speaker and I'm a strong worker when it comes to college papers, though I have lots of typos when typing on my phone like right now lol plus lots of psychology and neuroscience, criminal justice studies, and pharmacology. There were times where I just wanted to drop my classes and "take a break" indefinitely ha
but I pushed through it and the short term goal is to work in a mental health or in-patient treatment facility, and the long term goal is to open up a private practice and get into the realm of helping homeless people get off the streets and the substances and get their lives back and on track... Maybe study real estate and social work and start a halfway house program or even better, do what one of my former doctors is doing and buy out or lease a building and create my own foundation :)
Just as little as 5 years ago, if someone were to tell me they wanted to do all that, I'd laugh in their face, and if they told me that I would one day be on my way toward that direction, I'd laugh even harder and ask em where they got that fire ass dope from lol
Plus, I grew up in small town West Texas (I traveled all over the world and the US though in my early 20s) and 99% of the people I went to highschool with all have that defeatist, small town, sad boi Tumblr emo "I hate this town" mentality, who've never even been an hour and a half away (and some that's the most they've ever gone) and they all use social media too much, they all hate their jobs, they all say they're stuck and this town is a black hole, and many drink too much or are stoners and some use hard drugs regularly, and they all seem depressed, and I used to be one of them! And so "escape" is possible for anyone with the drive.
I like your videos from both channels bc you teach self improvement, business/business mentality, positivity, and prosperity (plus music lol)
I don't have to tell you to keep up the good work because know you will regardless, so instead I say,
Thank you for your good work, and also, I believe there is no heights one can reach to quit feeling inspired, and even when I have my complacent lulls, little things like this video restore the drive to continue and not just settle.
Sha brah 🤙🏿🤙🏿
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Here from the start. Ready to be inspired :)
Dude...I am loving this channel so far...I’m 47 and this kind of stuff still speaks to me because I always feel like I settled for my career instead of going for it. That’s how I teach my kids and I am having them watch with me...YT is more credible than parents anyway 😀✌🏻👊🏻
Lol- sad but true
that cough tho. so organic haha. great video man!
Punk Rock Mckenty I love you so much. My dream has always been to be a radio dj to spin records of the music I like. Seeing you do this I've come to the realization that I need to start myself and hopefully someone will love it. What you did and have done makes me feel competent because I feel like I'm living through you when you speak about your trails and tribulations to get to this point.
I love this stuff. Great video. Please make more!
Thank you!
I have an opportunity for a reset (at 34) coming up, and the advice from this video is universal. Your positive attitude on your other channel keeps me coming back, and the application of that to life in general is what shall keep me coming back to this one. Thanks!
Thanks man, appreciate it!
Great Advice Fin，for some reason I love the lighting on this channel better, probablly its all natural. You even look better/Younger in these videos. Can you tell more story about your previous job at Abercrombie？
People will buy what you offer them!
Love the video and content you put out, man! Keep up the amazing work
Great video dude, really solid info in here. I never read FLO but I wish I had looks pretty dope 😁 Keep it up Finn, this reminds me of the original PRMBA Facebook group!
Thanks man!
This is so true and can be applied to non creative careers as well,
I joined the army straight from school (not saying it to brag or to be thanked or any of that kind of bollocks I'm just giving some history to the story) anyway 8 years went by and it became evident what i thought i wanted to be when i was 16 wasnt the same thing i wanted to be in my mid twenties so i bit the bullet (metaphorically) and left to pursue what i thought would be my dream career in the fitness industry which as it turns out was a hell of alot more competetive than i imagined it woud be, the only jobs i could even get interviews for were for shit money and weren't for full time hours, anyway i took the first fitness job i could get and started gaining experience but still kept actively looking for better opportunities within the industry, literally any job that was better paying/had more hours/was closer to home i applied for and while i got alot of no's and no reply's i was able to secure a job slightly better than the one i had after a while and i repeated the process over and over as their were good opportunities coming around but i either couldn't get an interview or i wasnt experienced enough to get the nod, in my first 3 years in the industry i worked multiple part time jobs to make a full time wage
and during this time alot of the people i worked with were giving up to go do other things because they couldn't get the opportunity they felt they deserved (the burn out rate in the fitness industry is surprising) but i stuck at it and in my 4th year in the industry i was able to secure what has turned out to be my dream job working in the institute of sport at a university, its literally everything i thought working in my desired career path would be and as a result I've spent the last 5 years not feeling like I've worked a day, what I'm getting at is in my case i looked at my employment history as my portfolio so the better stuff i put in it the more likely i was to get the job i wanted
Well said! “Portfolio” applies figuratively to any field
Loving this second channel, I just subscribed. Thanks for uploading this!!
Thanks for watching!
Great message, loved this video!
Thank you!
“The work you put out is the work you will get asked to do more of”
Truth!
Almost positive I still have my copy of Flo. Surely picked it up at Bull Moose music.
Ha, amazing!
Finn this is awesome!
you're such an inspiration dude.
Thank you!
I am pretty positive that you have some of the best content on the UA-cam for creatives and how to build your self up. Thank you Finn.
Damir,
LToC
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Great insightful content as usual. Loving the new channel. Would you consider doing a video on your tattoos and the stories/ inspiration behind them?
Honestly it’s not very interesting lol- i just had friends who did tattoos and got whatever they felt like doing that day 😅
This whole channel is giving me an existential crisis. I'm finally making enough money to live on my own with my (pregnant) wife but it's in a factory working rotating shifts and frequent overtime. I'm often too tired to think straight let alone learn a skill. And I'm afraid wasting time trying to learn something that won't lead to anything.
Love this stuff
Subscribed here, too. Love your content. Sometime I wish my old ass had the balls to reach out and do what I actually would love to do for a living.
Theres a lot to be said for stability too
@@FinnMckentyPRMBA Stability just doesn't feel hardcore anymore. lol. Maybe I'm having a mid life crisis...or mid life awakening? haha!
Great advice
This is motivational for me because I want to start putting myself out there(because I'd like to think I'm ready to start my own band XD), though my current problem is self motivation to actually practice before I can "get out there".
But thank you for this encouraging video! 😬💜🤘
You’re never “ready” and there’s never a better time to start than now!
I am an aspiring CPA. Do you know anyone looking for a Bookkeeper in the Philly, NYC, NJ, Delaware area?
I got nothing to add, just wanted to say I love this video.
Awesome shared knowledge.
Thank you for watching!
Good stuff. Cheers from Italy 🍺
so true
super interesting as usual. Would you follow the same strategy again today if you had to start from scratch?
Yep!
I am finally here to get Finn Schooled
Shadows Fall!
I hope you can build this channel up too.
Me too!
How the hell do you know Chase Jarvis?
Have worked with him on a bunch of stuff over the past 20 years
@@FinnMckentyPRMBA that's awesome. I'd love to see (hear?) you talk about mentorship. I could be wrong here, but it seems like you've spent much of your early career without a direct person above you doing the same thing. I've been in that position a lot and I've found it really hard to grow when all you have to build on is your own fuckups 😅
You’re a treasure.
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