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Speaker 4: got away from the sex a little bit, y'all was
Speaker 4: I'll talk to y'all on a regular episode, not epicking.
Speaker 5: On my nerves. They be get on my nerves. I
Speaker 5: wanted to know all.
Speaker 4: The sex stuff with me and my bullshit. I'm like,
Speaker 4: you know what, let me get away from that. Let's
Speaker 4: get into some real tea in the real world.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: So okay, we're not gonna do that one.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, we'll start with the corporate America.
Speaker 5: That's what we'll do.
Speaker 4: That's what we'll do for this week. So for all
Speaker 4: of my corporate baddies, hopefully we can give you a
Speaker 4: little bit of advice here too. Hey, Mandy and Weezy
Speaker 4: not here. I need some help with the decision because
Speaker 4: I've heard y'all stories about leaving the corporate world to
Speaker 4: do what you do. I've been in the same business
Speaker 4: for seven years. It's contracted work. It's what I went
Speaker 4: to school for. Was starting to make decent money and
Speaker 4: thought was my dream since I was a teen.
Speaker 2: Fast forward to a few weeks ago.
Speaker 4: My boss blindsided me and decided to not renew my contract.
Speaker 4: They told me only a few days before it was up,
Speaker 4: leaving me with only two months severance pay. Oh that sucks,
Speaker 4: this econmy It was devastating, But fut that bitch. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I just renewed my homes rental contract, so it really
Speaker 4: means I only have a few weeks to find a
Speaker 4: job before the money runs out. I've been trying sixty
Speaker 4: plus applications, but the job market is ass right now
Speaker 4: and I've had no luck thus far, I've been thinking
Speaker 4: about what's next for me. Since I have the background
Speaker 4: and skills, I would love to dive into the world
Speaker 4: of entertainment, podcasting, hosting, etc. However, I also need now
Speaker 4: money to pay the bills. If this were you, how
Speaker 4: would you transition? Do I break the rental contract, suffer
Speaker 4: the financial consequences, and move back in with my parents
Speaker 4: in my thirties and start over. Do I find a
Speaker 4: short term job first to pay the bills while simultaneously
Speaker 4: building my new career. Or do I stay in the
Speaker 4: same industry that projected me a little longer until I
Speaker 4: get back on my feet, then decide from there.
Speaker 6: Thanks, I sincerely do like all three options. I hate
Speaker 6: the going back to your parents one more than the other.
Speaker 4: Well mean too, because it's not only the months of
Speaker 4: rent the one month of rent, but it's whatever to
Speaker 4: break your your lease. Here's the thing, I know how
Speaker 4: hard the job market is currently.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of friends that are constantly looking.
Speaker 2: I think it's.
Speaker 4: Also this weird place right now where because AI is
Speaker 4: reading resumes like the advice that my friends are getting
Speaker 4: is to literally tailor their resumes for each job application.
Speaker 6: That's actually a lot of people I know are doing
Speaker 6: the same thing, has the time to do that.
Speaker 5: So it's tough.
Speaker 2: It is tough.
Speaker 4: I will say I will never ever so where you
Speaker 4: said you kind of like all three, I would actually
Speaker 4: never recommend anybody to leave getting a check to explore
Speaker 4: entrepreneurialship in a drought. Right now, there's a drop like
Speaker 4: she's like, bro, I only have two months of sevens pay,
Speaker 4: which means there's no savings.
Speaker 2: Like before I quit my corporate job, I had savings.
Speaker 4: I got new furniture, I paid off my credit card
Speaker 4: bills because Sally may ate c and me hunt. But
Speaker 4: I did those things that would make me feel comfortable
Speaker 4: to dive into entrepreneurship. So that wouldn't be my suggestion, honestly.
Speaker 4: And it takes and let's be very clear, anyone listening
Speaker 4: who wants to dive into entertainment quote unquote podcasting any
Speaker 4: of it. It costs money, a lot of money, and
Speaker 4: it takes a while to make.
Speaker 6: Money a lot of money, like a lot of money,
Speaker 6: because it's not even just like dollar bills, but money
Speaker 6: even in terms of time, it's like.
Speaker 5: It costs a lot of time. Yes, one big.
Speaker 6: Thing for me and to even pickyback on the whole
Speaker 6: like entrepreneurship. You know, I have a lot of people
Speaker 6: who do constantly ask me, hey, like, what's a good
Speaker 6: side hostle to get on to really make things happen.
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, what's the skill that?
Speaker 6: What's her skill set? That's kind of a that's kind
Speaker 6: of a big thing for me. It's like, what is
Speaker 6: your skill set? Good question, because then now can you
Speaker 6: really use that to monetize because anybody else you could
Speaker 6: go do door dash or X y Z. But realistically,
Speaker 6: the flow of that is not as going to be
Speaker 6: as big as whatever severance you have and whatever you
Speaker 6: were making for now. One big thing that she did
Speaker 6: say that I thought was interesting is her diving back
Speaker 6: into the career that kind of also mended her in
Speaker 6: the way.
Speaker 2: Now well she had here's the thing.
Speaker 5: She clearly liked it.
Speaker 4: She said, this is the career she wanted since she
Speaker 4: was a team I wouldn't let this boss or this job,
Speaker 4: like not renewing your contract gets you down on something
Speaker 4: that's your passion and what you love. First off, I
Speaker 4: do also want to say that baby, you don't understand
Speaker 4: the privilege of having parents that you can go back,
Speaker 4: Like for it's crazy because I know we get on
Speaker 4: the internet and people we'll sit here and talk shit
Speaker 4: about people who gotta do Uh. That is actually a privilege,
Speaker 4: huge privilege to have first off, your parents still here,
Speaker 4: but also them having enough space in their home to
Speaker 4: take you in until you get back on your feet.
Speaker 2: It's a privilege.
Speaker 4: Yeah, your in your twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, If you
Speaker 4: have to go back, that's that's what parents.
Speaker 5: I encourage it.
Speaker 6: I encourage it honestly because it's like now and this
Speaker 6: is like in a dire situation Like that's where I'm like, yes,
Speaker 6: now if you're just kind of like going lazy off
Speaker 6: and then you're just trying to go back because you're like,
Speaker 6: I'm cool, I got a safety in that.
Speaker 5: Not fuck that.
Speaker 4: I will say, you brought up uber door dash. Those
Speaker 4: are things that people can like do to make but
Speaker 4: it's a lot of time. I will say it also
Speaker 4: depends the city. True, that's to how much money they
Speaker 4: can make. Right, this is this is one of those
Speaker 4: it's tricky, but it's not tricky. I think you have
Speaker 4: to buckle the fuck now. I don't know. Also as well,
Speaker 4: I believe if you get severance, you can still get unemployment.
Speaker 4: But I don't know, depending on what type of contract
Speaker 4: she had, if you know that company even paid into
Speaker 4: unemployment to allow her. Also, it was a contracted position,
Speaker 4: so I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: Apparently in most cases you are allowed to you can
Speaker 5: depend on the men.
Speaker 4: It depends on the benefits. So I would look into
Speaker 4: any any sort of assistance. First, I would be open
Speaker 4: to applying as well to things outside of your industry.
Speaker 2: You have to, you're an adult.
Speaker 4: I would actually see it clear if you are in
Speaker 4: a position of survival. The last thing I would recommend
Speaker 4: anyone is to dive into something new, like posting a
Speaker 4: podcast or you know, starting a business from scratch or like,
Speaker 4: because what that's going to do is.
Speaker 2: Take away this.
Speaker 6: And again that's a lot of money, essentially, a lot
Speaker 6: of money.
Speaker 2: Essentially, What did you do? Like, were you corporate before
Speaker 2: you got in?
Speaker 6: You know, it's funny, not really. I mean I worked
Speaker 6: a couple of jobs. I was a I was a
Speaker 6: running down, I was a bro. I did after school teaching.
Speaker 6: I did work at like a broadcasting network, and that's
Speaker 6: really it. After that I got into podcasting, and that
Speaker 6: I never really stopped. Okay, I did a lot of
Speaker 6: freelance work. I mean that's how I met you. Guys
Speaker 6: do like freelance photographies. But again it's all on the
Speaker 6: skill set. Now, if you want to maybe use your
Speaker 6: entrepreneurial skills to kind of make like a side hustle
Speaker 6: while you're doing your like side hustle while you're figuring
Speaker 6: things out, that, I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, okay, So I'm just gonna just go add on
Speaker 4: to that, because although I don't like cheaters or liars,
Speaker 4: the only way I'm going to accept it is if
Speaker 4: you lie on that resume. So if you do have
Speaker 4: skills and things, girl, check it out. Forever twenty one
Speaker 4: going bankrupt? What name some other ones that just went bankrupt.
Speaker 4: There's mad Stores that Michaels, Michaels went bankrupt. And hold on,
Speaker 4: what's the little thing where the girls used to wear
Speaker 4: the little the little leotards and ship American apparel?
Speaker 2: Girl, create create a resume with a whole bunch of.
Speaker 4: Shit that no longer exists. Ask your friends and family, Oh,
Speaker 4: they don't have no one to come.
Speaker 5: That's a good trick. I do like that. Use use
Speaker 5: some of the like, don't feel like you were, like,
Speaker 5: you know, regional man.
Speaker 4: Don't put regional manager, you can put store manager. Yeah,
Speaker 4: put things that Route twenty one. I used to work there.
Speaker 4: They no longer exist.
Speaker 5: That's a really good to you certain you.
Speaker 4: Know, and that's in retail, right, But there's also so
Speaker 4: many other companies that.
Speaker 5: Still helps a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I know too many people who try to
Speaker 6: do retail and they have no experience, and they're always
Speaker 6: looking for someone with.
Speaker 4: Experience, So use them stores that no longer exists because
Speaker 4: they have no one to really call you can.
Speaker 6: I also add like I know too many people, a
Speaker 6: lot of friends of mine who when it comes to
Speaker 6: these tough times of getting employment, they go on like
Speaker 6: let's say LinkedIn, et cetera.
Speaker 5: They do their easy applause or they apply like that.
Speaker 6: But I will also very much encourage to go meet people,
Speaker 6: go to events and stuff like that, because right now
Speaker 6: I just had someone asking me if I knew a
Speaker 6: photographer in LA and I'm like, cool, Yeah, I have
Speaker 6: like three people that could recommend you, and that's it
Speaker 6: all for that. They trust my word that hey, I
Speaker 6: know these people, they do good work and it works out,
Speaker 6: and it's from knowing someone at the same time, if
Speaker 6: you go go meet people, meet events, you'll make a connection.
Speaker 6: Hopefully you can find a side hustle like that. But
Speaker 6: that's so crazy. I love that resonates them. I'm so
Speaker 6: sorry that I can't forget.
Speaker 5: That, like live just a little bee a lot of it,
Speaker 5: just a little bit, little bit.
Speaker 2: Like look at the skills. You know how to follow
Speaker 2: a shirt.
Speaker 4: It's like, I don't know, like I think that that's
Speaker 4: something to do. And then oh my god, I had
Speaker 4: another tip at the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 2: You brought up the LinkedIn.
Speaker 6: And people throwing, people throwing something and hoping the sticks.
Speaker 6: But realistically it is just like you said, it's very
Speaker 6: ai or automated, like if not looking through the shingle.
Speaker 5: Oh well, they have characters, no, no.
Speaker 2: Here we go and a little backstory.
Speaker 4: So I moved to New York in twenty twelve from Miami.
Speaker 4: I got up here. I immediately went, of course to bartending.
Speaker 4: So I was bartending, and when I tell you, I
Speaker 4: was hustling. So I bartended Applebee's. I went all the
Speaker 4: way to Long Island to this place called Giggles, which
Speaker 4: was like a comedy club. I commuted from Brooklyn to
Speaker 4: Long Island to Bartend. Then I got into like the
Speaker 4: strip clubs. I used to do the Duck in Harlem.
Speaker 4: So I did all these like random gigs bartending. But
Speaker 4: what really got me like a stable check was getting
Speaker 4: into a temp agency.
Speaker 2: Okay, so there's Robert Half.
Speaker 4: There's like a lot of different names, and I don't
Speaker 4: know which ones are local to you because you didn't
Speaker 4: put where you live. But when I tell you, temp
Speaker 4: agencies will get you in and get you jobs that
Speaker 4: can go from temporary to permanent. They go across various
Speaker 4: industries or a lot of times you can just be
Speaker 4: like executive assistant receptionists, things like that. I was a
Speaker 4: receptionist for an ad agency. I was a receptionist for
Speaker 4: a law firm. I was a receptionist an executive assistant
Speaker 4: at Ross, which, by the way, another company that just
Speaker 4: went bankrupt.
Speaker 5: Ye that's Ross was another one.
Speaker 2: Ross dressed for less.
Speaker 4: But I was in their corporate office here in New
Speaker 4: York and all of these Oh listen.
Speaker 5: That's the thing that she's like, you see, especially.
Speaker 4: At the time, it wasn't a Let's be very clearly,
Speaker 4: this is twenty twelve, I had to make ends meet,
Speaker 4: and I was making anywhere from like sixteen to twenty
Speaker 4: dollars an hour. And you know, taxes will bust your ship.
Speaker 4: But there are options out here, There are options. I
Speaker 4: would also say, lean into your skills, girl. If you
Speaker 4: know how to braid hair, these braiders is charging so
Speaker 4: get you know what I mean, if you know how
Speaker 4: to if you're a man and you know how to
Speaker 4: how to do a haircut.
Speaker 5: Like I like what you said. That's it. You just
Speaker 5: amount us to doing haircuts. I mean in construction there
Speaker 5: you go. I like that construction TVs. Something something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was gonna say, task rabbit, Yeah, something gotta
Speaker 6: get mounted always always.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean I listen. I feel for anyone
Speaker 4: currently without a job in.
Speaker 5: This marketplace time, this is a.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 4: First off, we've been in a recession, but an old
Speaker 4: ass just didn't want to say it. We've been here,
Speaker 4: we've been here, and so I can only wish you luck,
Speaker 4: wish you the best.
Speaker 2: Tap into your network.
Speaker 6: Tap into the high by the way, because I still
Speaker 6: be going on discord every once in a while, and
Speaker 6: they do have a channel for that.
Speaker 5: They have a channel channel for jobs and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: Okay, So I don't know if you're on the Discord,
Speaker 6: but going discord is one of your benefits as a
Speaker 6: Patreon number.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's a.
Speaker 4: If you are a Patreon member, get on the Discord
Speaker 4: and go to the job section. You're right, the Hive
Speaker 4: really does be looking out. I mean, we've had someone
Speaker 4: reach out to us a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: They were high.
Speaker 4: Up in content development and Netflix and was like, y'all
Speaker 4: looking at dude, So yeah, shout out to the Hive.
Speaker 4: I would say, yeah, I'm not sure. If you're a
Speaker 4: patron and if you're listening to this and you are
Speaker 4: a Patreon member and you're in the same type of position, yeah,
Speaker 4: get your butt over to the Discord channel and check
Speaker 4: out that job through.
Speaker 6: So I'm saying, go meet people, find the community, talk
Speaker 6: about it, make it work.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I love at the end of the day because
Speaker 4: if I was twenty six, I would have told you,
Speaker 4: gir go get some of these niggas. But I'm gonna
Speaker 4: tell you the job market is drying up, is so
Speaker 4: is these niggles, Like they is not breaking bread, they
Speaker 4: is not tricking, They is not doing the things that.
Speaker 5: It is rough, bro, it is rough.
Speaker 4: But everybody like a shout out to the men they have.
Speaker 2: To see here and be providers in this economy.
Speaker 5: It is expistive. Do you have to be you know
Speaker 5: what I mean? Like I have no choice, It don't matter,
Speaker 5: like I ain't gonna hold you.
Speaker 4: Back in the day, it was nothing to ask a
Speaker 4: nigger to come up my little six hundred dollars rent, baby,
Speaker 4: would a bitch is rent is fucking twenty five?
Speaker 2: It becomes a little more difficult, Like I.
Speaker 4: Get it, I get it. It's crazy. These times are hard.
Speaker 4: The times are hard.
Speaker 5: Well, as y'all know.
Speaker 2: We normally leave comments.
Speaker 4: So if you're on the Patreon and you're watching this video,
Speaker 4: if you know of any temp agencies, if you know
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