But I guess my question because I love to hear about how people have gone through all of their different career ideas and have all these different jobs. I wanted to ask you all how you have kind of come to be where you're at now, what you're thinking at moving forward and everything in between, because I would love to normalize changing your career and I know that it's not always feasible for people. It's not a super accessible thing to just uproot your career and change
And right before I went to College, I was absolutely sure I was going to major in film and go into screenwriting and have a career in Hollywood and filmmaking. And then right before I graduated, I committed to Pit, which is not exactly known for its film Department. So when I decided I was going to go to Pitt, I no longer was committed to the idea of being a screenwriter
phil spade
@Phil · 4:45
They know they're good at Motors. So anything with a motor is something that they're going to enter in. And if you think about yourself in that same way, what is my core competency? What am I good at? How can I expand that into other areas? That might be interesting where the opportunity is is really the way that I think about changes in career paths. And hopefully that was not too long winded. But that's how I've always done it
But do not fear trying different things and take the restrictions off of it. Don't feel like you have to try new things because you absolutely have. You changed you career path. Try the new things because you just want to try them. It boosts your self awareness about yourself. You begin to know more about you and how you think and what you like and what you don't like and what you could potentially do. It's like a true personal development journey for yourself
And look, this is not a trip where we're hanging out in malls and going to parks and stuff like that. We are going to museums, day in, day out. We're really living and breathing history on these trips. And that's the sort of thing that just like, I fundamentally cannot get behind. And I found that over the years, I was sort of losing myself in my profession, and I think it got to an unhealthy point
phil spade
@Phil · 2:16
But it's not necessarily a career. And I've heard a lot of people talk about this. I would more so focus on what are you good at? And what you like to do is something completely different. And to Monique's second point, you make that a side hustle. I love people that have side hustles and a lot of employers kind of frown upon that. I don't understand why what you do on your own free time is your business