Speaker 1: It's time for the big a q A, the big
Speaker 1: a q A, which is saying the Big a q
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Speaker 1: Today the b a q a A, It's time for
Speaker 1: Brown a Vision, the question and answers. You have questions,
Speaker 1: we have some answers. We are your smart, savvy, beautiful
Speaker 1: if I do say so myself, and I just to
Speaker 1: say myself financial friends, but we're not your attorney, we're
Speaker 1: not your financial advisors. So certainly leaning to people that
Speaker 1: you pay for the next level advice and just take
Speaker 1: what we say with a grain of salts.
Speaker 2: Get your salt shakers out. We should make ba branded
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Speaker 3: So we got some really good questions.
Speaker 1: We're doing career questions today, So for Brown A Vision
Speaker 1: b a q A. You know we take career questions,
Speaker 1: personal finance questions, business questions, and so we've got some
Speaker 1: career questions that I write up at Mandress.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited to dive in.
Speaker 2: Oh can I say a quick shout out because I
Speaker 2: just remember remember our fave Kevin Kas with wife and
Speaker 2: with the wife. Yes, and if you guys, I think
Speaker 2: we had it done a whole ba qa dedicated to
Speaker 2: Kevin and his wife, but the whole family is now
Speaker 2: into BA now because he DMed me to let me
Speaker 2: know that he signed his daughter up again. Kevin always
Speaker 2: meddling the woman in his lives, but he's signed his
Speaker 2: daughter up for my negotiating master class. Like, I just
Speaker 2: want to know she's going to be there. Here's her name.
Speaker 3: I'm good for you.
Speaker 1: Kevin's like, yeah, he's doing what's he's doing, Like the
Speaker 1: last episode of Like, I'm just walking in your house
Speaker 1: to make sure you're good.
Speaker 3: You're like, uh, okay, we'll take care of myself.
Speaker 1: Thanks, But no, I mean I love it though, because
Speaker 1: Kevin just wants what's best with the women in his lives.
Speaker 3: But but I love this one.
Speaker 2: Women to win, all right, But let's get into these questions.
Speaker 2: There's some juicy, juicy ones you want to read. The
Speaker 2: first one to.
Speaker 1: City Floor says, Hey, Mandy aunt Tiphony, I so love
Speaker 1: your podcast. Y'all got me crying and leafing at the
Speaker 1: same time. Yes, I listen to every one of your podcasts.
Speaker 1: I would love to see you guys live, like on
Speaker 1: a book tour or Smiley face. My question, flast decision
Speaker 1: is that I need some advice that I need some
Speaker 1: advice on is this. I was recently offered a new
Speaker 1: job at a reputable and stable been around since the
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred type of stable private company that also offers
Speaker 1: an annual bonus, stock options, and yearly pay increase. I
Speaker 1: get none of these perks at my current job, sadly,
Speaker 1: and it would be a ten thousand dollars increase from
Speaker 1: my current salary.
Speaker 3: Sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: My issue is that I am thirty seven years old
Speaker 1: and I'm planning to have a baby soon, hopefully get
Speaker 1: pregnant before the end of the year. Would it be
Speaker 1: unwise of me to take this new job because I
Speaker 1: missed out on FMLA benefits because I wouldn't be at
Speaker 1: the job for a year before giving birth. Or should
Speaker 1: I stay at my current job and have the stability
Speaker 1: and peace of mind knowing that I'll QUI for FMLA
Speaker 1: and keep my job post pregnancy leave. Please help with
Speaker 1: lots of love and appreciation. City floor translates to city
Speaker 1: flower cute.
Speaker 2: First of all, our country is trash. Why do we
Speaker 2: still not offer I like, why do we still not
Speaker 2: offer family parental leave just as a blanket policy? I
Speaker 2: just have no idea, and thank you City Floor for
Speaker 2: reminding me how trash our policy is. Because even with
Speaker 2: a Family Medical Leave Act Act, you do need to
Speaker 2: work at a place for a year to qualify, and
Speaker 2: even then, all you're qualifying for is twelve weeks of
Speaker 2: unpaid leave and some job security. So I'm guessing at
Speaker 2: her current job and this new job, they don't offer
Speaker 2: any like of their own maternal leave benefits, So they
Speaker 2: don't give you any kind of paid family leave.
Speaker 1: Like they're good, yeah, if you just compare to some
Speaker 1: of the stuff they don't offer, like the bonus in
Speaker 1: the stock options that sounds like this place doesn't is
Speaker 1: very bare bones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm trying to like work out the timing here.
Speaker 2: I mean, you, it takes nine months to cook a baby,
Speaker 2: that's simple. You could wait a few months, you know,
Speaker 2: and and you may want to just wait a few
Speaker 2: months to kind of get your feet under you at
Speaker 2: this new job. But then I feel like if you
Speaker 2: start after a few months, then you're pretty much guaranteed
Speaker 2: unless the baby comes early. I mean, who it's hard
Speaker 2: to plan around a pregnancy because it's so much of
Speaker 2: it as out of our control, right, But to that extent.
Speaker 2: You could wait a few months. I know you're thirty seven,
Speaker 2: you're still I mean, I'm thirty five too, so I
Speaker 2: know it's in that geriatric pregnancy phase. And I don't
Speaker 2: know anything about your I know, right, I don't know
Speaker 2: anything about your fertility journey or if you've had struggles
Speaker 2: getting pregnant. But you know it may take longer than
Speaker 2: a few months to get pregnant. Unless you married a
Speaker 2: Dominican like me, there is no try there's only do
Speaker 2: you know, you say we're gonna try instant pregnancy any
Speaker 2: but yeah, so you could wait a few months and
Speaker 2: then start trying, and then you know you'll be around
Speaker 2: that year mark. There's there's better benefits though, the annual bonus,
Speaker 2: you have stock options, you get a yearly pay increase,
Speaker 2: a ten k increase from your current salary. It's difficult.
Speaker 2: I think you're just going to have to choose how
Speaker 2: you want to gamble it. But if you do choose
Speaker 2: to go to the new job, regardless, even if you
Speaker 2: did qualify for the FMLA, you'd still have to be
Speaker 2: bankrolling your own attorney leap. It sounds like so you'd
Speaker 2: want to start putting aside the funds now and figuring
Speaker 2: out how much time do I want to give myself off?
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's that full twelve weeks. Even the Lord knows
Speaker 2: we need more? Yeah, and how much? How much is
Speaker 2: your noodle budget? Right, so Tiffany go to Tiffany's noodle budget,
Speaker 2: like what do you guys need? Although it's like noodle
Speaker 2: plus a baby budget? So more, I want your noodle
Speaker 2: budget with me because pampers ain't cheap, and start, you know,
Speaker 2: start to like plan ahead to see, okay, how much
Speaker 2: would you need to set aside? And hey, maybe with
Speaker 2: that with uh, if you could ask for a signing bonus.
Speaker 2: I know that they offer an annual bonus, but maybe
Speaker 2: there's still time. I don't know when this job offer
Speaker 2: came through, maybe you could still ask for a bit
Speaker 2: of a signing bonus and kind of bank that to
Speaker 2: go toward your maternity leave fund. But dang, I just
Speaker 2: hate that we don't we don't do better for our
Speaker 2: our working families out there, especially mothers. This family because
Speaker 2: this company could miss out and a badass woman because
Speaker 2: they don't. They don't recognize that we are whole human
Speaker 2: beings who want to have families and don't make it
Speaker 2: possible for us to do both relatively easily.
Speaker 1: The only thing I'm going to add, just because because
Speaker 1: Mandy cover basically everything, is that I just want to
Speaker 1: commend you for understanding that family planning is also financial planning.
Speaker 1: You know, unless you're like sixteen, you're like, uh, you know.
Speaker 3: And so like you know that.
Speaker 1: You know, as an adult, you know, as you're planning
Speaker 1: your family, you want to be intentional about Okay, you
Speaker 1: know that. I mean, certainly you know you don't know
Speaker 1: what your fertility journey to mandy'scot is going to be,
Speaker 1: but you do know my financial journey is going to
Speaker 1: have to support whatever my fertility journey is. And so
Speaker 1: I'm just going to commend you for just thinking these
Speaker 1: things through, because not to say people just have babies
Speaker 1: don't think about it. Certainly people do, but I don't
Speaker 1: think people realize just the amount of planning. Because the
Speaker 1: truth is, I'm sure Mandy could tell you could plan, plan, plan,
Speaker 1: and the baby gets here and it's like, wait, you know,
Speaker 1: like some of the best laces plans go out the
Speaker 1: window because things are more.
Speaker 3: Expensive than you think. You know, there are things you
Speaker 3: didn't even think of.
Speaker 1: It's like there's a favorite quote that says everyone has
Speaker 1: a plan until you get punched in the face, you know,
Speaker 1: And I feel like you know in some ways you
Speaker 1: know you have your baby, especially if it's your first,
Speaker 1: it's a punch in the face. So I just want
Speaker 1: to say that that, like, you know, continue to make
Speaker 1: those plans, like Mandy said, stack up as much as
Speaker 1: you can. It might be time to ask yourself, are
Speaker 1: the things we can do to downsize to leave a
Speaker 1: little more space for money, But certainly having a child
Speaker 1: that you desire to have is a blessing. And so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't wait on anybody's job or whatever to dictate that,
Speaker 1: you know, because one of the things I've heard from
Speaker 1: every single mama is that you find a way. You know,
Speaker 1: you find a way. Not to say it's easy, but
Speaker 1: you find a way. And so we wish you luck
Speaker 1: on the on the baby journey and the financial journey
Speaker 1: and city floor continue to bloom.
Speaker 2: And I will just give you peace of mind that
Speaker 2: like you were able to get another job opportunity, and
Speaker 2: there will be other ones, you know, if you're if
Speaker 2: that's what you want, a better job opportunity, and so
Speaker 2: if you decide listen, with my tolerance for risk and
Speaker 2: my stress levels, I just want to have something that
Speaker 2: I know for sure, like the devil that you know.
Speaker 2: And you want to state where you are because you
Speaker 2: have the benefit and like you said, you have that
Speaker 2: relative job security. There's no shame in that, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. It's really just down to every decision
Speaker 2: is a little bit of a gamble, So what can
Speaker 2: you tolerate and working that out if you have a partner,
Speaker 2: and settling on what's best for you and your family.
Speaker 2: But I wish you all the best, like Tiffany said,
Speaker 2: and thank you so much for sending us your question.
Speaker 2: But yeah, back to our country being trash, I don't understand. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's take a quick breaking break and we'll be right
Speaker 2: back with question number two. This was a long and
Speaker 2: juicy one. Y'all do not want to miss this. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, we got a big question. How do I
Speaker 2: even approach this? Just repart one?
Speaker 3: First?
Speaker 1: Yes, but I well, I think read it through and
Speaker 1: they will break it down. But maybe I'm nervous about
Speaker 1: this might be her own name, so let's call her
Speaker 1: something else because this is very specific and she's.
Speaker 3: Young, so I don't want to refer to her as
Speaker 3: b okay. B okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she says, refer to me as be okay And
Speaker 2: this is from a young and so we want to
Speaker 2: take good care of you oka b B says, Hey, ladies,
Speaker 2: I'm twenty three years old and your podcast and book
Speaker 2: Tiffany have been essential in helping me navigate the financial
Speaker 2: part of adulting tremendously. Thank you for all your tips
Speaker 2: and tricks. Will you refer to me as b Yes.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I am a full full time
Speaker 2: graphic designer at a small creative agency. Recently, I went
Speaker 2: in for my six month review and I received a raise.
Speaker 2: During this meeting with my boss, however, I found out
Speaker 2: she's only been paid me based on a thirty six
Speaker 2: thousand dollars salary, but I didn't agree to that. I
Speaker 2: agreed to thirty eight thousand dollars when I moved into
Speaker 2: a full time role from my internship. I explicitly remembered
Speaker 2: taking the weekend to think about it and counter offering
Speaker 2: with a number closer to forty two K. She ultimately
Speaker 2: offered me thirty eight K and agreed to bump me
Speaker 2: up to forty K. When my review came up. It's
Speaker 2: only a two K difference, but it's bothering me because
Speaker 2: I would have never agreed to thirty six k because
Speaker 2: after doing the math, it was less than what she
Speaker 2: paid me as an intern. Okay, my question is, and
Speaker 2: this is the first part of a question, should I
Speaker 2: ask for back pay and proof of the now forty
Speaker 2: K salary so I don't get bamboozled again?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, immediately.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: My first response is like, where's the where's the receipts?
Speaker 2: You know this? Please tell me there is paperwork like
Speaker 2: you had an offer letter, the letter, Yes, there was
Speaker 2: some sort of agreement that you had to sign that
Speaker 2: you mails, Yeah, even emails, any kind of paper trail
Speaker 2: that you can find. I'm also wondering did she acknowledge
Speaker 2: that she had screwed up in the review cycle.
Speaker 1: It sounds like she might not have brought it up.
Speaker 1: It sounds like she probably was like, you know, you
Speaker 1: said the kind of stunned. It sounds like maybe B
Speaker 1: was like, wait, yeah, you know so B.
Speaker 2: I feel like in this situation, I think if you're
Speaker 2: someone like me to be able to write down like
Speaker 2: your own timeline of events and offer the receipts and
Speaker 2: then present that to your boss as hey, you know,
Speaker 2: after our six month review, I started to get confused.
Speaker 2: So I just wanted to write down my recollections and
Speaker 2: the documentation that I have of our earlier agreement to
Speaker 2: my salary. I understand, Like, maybe you can even throw
Speaker 2: her a little bit of a you know, a bone
Speaker 2: and be like, I understand sometimes clerical error, clerical oracles,
Speaker 2: clerical error errors can happen, but I expect to be
Speaker 2: compensated for backpay because I have not been paid according
Speaker 2: to the salary that we agreed upon. And you should
Speaker 2: see what she says, and then, honestly, if the response
Speaker 2: is no, I think you have I think you have
Speaker 2: all the rights to contact an employment law attorney, and
Speaker 2: I would say, based on your age and your salary level,
Speaker 2: maybe they'd even offer you like pro bono advice or
Speaker 2: pro bono help. Sometimes you don't even need to like
Speaker 2: go with a full fledged lawsuit. Just a letter from
Speaker 2: an attorney showing that they're going to have, like you
Speaker 2: know that you have some legal advice on your side
Speaker 2: could be enough to get them to get their shit together,
Speaker 2: you know, like anything you would add to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, also too, this like, oh my god, she's so young,
Speaker 1: the fact that she said, should I ask for proof
Speaker 1: of my now forty thousand case? The thing is, yes,
Speaker 1: that's just standard, like so many said, Like so for example,
Speaker 1: when someone signs on with me, even if it's just
Speaker 1: a contractor there's a contract in place where it says,
Speaker 1: you know, this is how much you're going to make.
Speaker 1: This is you know, like you get paid every you know,
Speaker 1: first and the fifteenth or whatever that there's a contract
Speaker 1: in place. So one, there's an offer letter, depending on
Speaker 1: what type of if it's a full time or part
Speaker 1: time employee, you get an offer letter, but at the
Speaker 1: very least, on top of that, you also get a
Speaker 1: contract because we have to be you know, we have
Speaker 1: to legally be binding and so but I get it
Speaker 1: because it's a very small business, and if I'm being honest,
Speaker 1: we didn't start doing that until maybe like five years ago.
Speaker 1: So ten years in we were just flying like this
Speaker 1: small business is doing. So I'm not even shading them
Speaker 1: because I get it, but you should ask, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, one, i'd love an offer letter for this,
Speaker 1: and then two, is there a contract for my for
Speaker 1: my my forty thousand so that's not something extra, just
Speaker 1: so you know, moving forward, always, always, always, at the
Speaker 1: very least, they should be a contract in place.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and that contract should explicitly state here's your
Speaker 2: annual compensation, and then here's what it is on a
Speaker 2: bi weekly basis. So it should say here's what you
Speaker 2: can't expect to get paid, you know, on your paycheck,
Speaker 2: just to make it abundantly clear. So let's go to
Speaker 2: part two of her question, because there's more Now for
Speaker 2: the next part, she says, this review came a few
Speaker 2: weeks earlier because I disclosed to her that I was
Speaker 2: applying for a freelance position, unaware that she doesn't want
Speaker 2: us freelancing. On the side, she mentioned there's a non
Speaker 2: compete agreement, but I never signed one with her, though
Speaker 2: I know her disapproval for me freelancing. I am tight
Speaker 2: on cash. No shit, you're only making peanuts, Okay. I
Speaker 2: live alone and I pay nine to seventy five in rent.
Speaker 2: Downsizing isn't an option because of the benefits of my
Speaker 2: current place stabilize, rent payment flexibility, et cetera. Long story short,
Speaker 2: I need more money. Since she's not willing to supplement
Speaker 2: the money I would be making with freelance work and
Speaker 2: I don't want to serve tables anymore because it's demeaning, straining,
Speaker 2: and not to mention, I have a degree I could
Speaker 2: be putting to use morally, should I continue to freelance? Discreetly?
Speaker 2: Sorry for the long message. I hope you can offer
Speaker 2: some clarity. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 3: Oh baby, I know.
Speaker 2: You need to get up on out of here, go
Speaker 2: to get all on about it. Are you a danger girl,
Speaker 2: b B You're in danger? Yeah, So I would make
Speaker 2: sure that your LinkedIn and you are applying and getting
Speaker 2: your name out there. I know there's tons of places
Speaker 2: that would love to work with a talented graphic designer,
Speaker 2: plus you have a degree in that field. That being said,
Speaker 2: the thing is you should be working at a place
Speaker 2: that's going to compensate you fairly and compensate you and
Speaker 2: value you correctly so that you're not in a position
Speaker 2: where you need to be doing a lot of extra
Speaker 2: freelance work. And this whole non compete bullshit. I really
Speaker 2: take issue with that because as a journalist, it became
Speaker 2: more common that media sites would have us sign non
Speaker 2: compete agreements, which is really difficult because you know, you're
Speaker 2: not in a field. We're getting paid a lot in
Speaker 2: the first place, and would they would like limit your
Speaker 2: potential for additional income. And I have a friend who
Speaker 2: just quit a huge job at Bloomberg because they would
Speaker 2: not allow her to make any money using her skills
Speaker 2: as a financial journalist.
Speaker 3: I know what it is. I talked to her.
Speaker 2: You know what, everyone knows who that is.
Speaker 3: I was like, wait, a bite, that's.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so yeah, So I think if this is
Speaker 2: going to become a recurring theme for you as you
Speaker 2: go through working full time as a graphic designer, Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: there's not much we can do as long as we
Speaker 2: want to work full time. If a company has a
Speaker 2: non compete, you know they can enforce it. It doesn't
Speaker 2: sound like you actually signed one with this company. You
Speaker 2: say that you didn't, So I would say, she can't
Speaker 2: stop you. I would continue doing it discreetly. Also, honestly,
Speaker 2: you need to make ends meet, and like you said,
Speaker 2: you need to actually use your Like if you had
Speaker 2: a choice between waiting tables or using your degree and
Speaker 2: building your skill set to bring an additional income, Hell, yeah,
Speaker 2: you should be doing that. So I mean I fully
Speaker 2: support you continuing different lands. I just wouldn't. I just wouldn't,
Speaker 2: you know, tell her that you're doing it and be
Speaker 2: as discreed as you can. And on top of that,
Speaker 2: i'd we start making moves so that you can move
Speaker 2: on to a new firm, leverage the experience you have.
Speaker 2: You're already interning with her, now you're working full time
Speaker 2: for six months. You probably have a year's worth of
Speaker 2: experience at this point, you know, and move on to
Speaker 2: a new role that is going to pay you better hopefully,
Speaker 2: and like actually have their documentation in place so that
Speaker 2: they can't propose to you like this, because.
Speaker 3: I'll say, like this, so so here over at budget
Speaker 3: these to ink right.
Speaker 1: We do have a non compete, but it's non compete,
Speaker 1: like you can't do this for a similar company, not
Speaker 1: that you can't do this at all. So if you like, say,
Speaker 1: run ads for us, you can run ads for anybody,
Speaker 1: but not also a financial a personal financial brand in
Speaker 1: this way, you know, because then you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: using all of our trade secrets to then do this
Speaker 1: for someone else.
Speaker 3: So that's what our non compete.
Speaker 1: That it's not that you can't work other places, it's
Speaker 1: just you can't work for a similar company like this,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know that makes sense. And I'll
Speaker 1: just say all this to say so one of my
Speaker 1: employees actually contacted me, and I was so proud of her.
Speaker 1: I said, many you would have been so proud of her.
Speaker 1: She was like, hey, you know, she got on my
Speaker 1: calendar and I think we're gonna talk about something else,
Speaker 1: and she was like, I just wanted to reach out
Speaker 1: to you. I said, did you take Mandy's own networking class?
Speaker 1: Because you know, if I say her no, You're.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, I love her.
Speaker 1: She was like, so with the current, with inflation of happening,
Speaker 1: you know, the income that I'm making is not quite enough.
Speaker 1: So but I and I know I have to I
Speaker 1: have to have a second source of income. And so
Speaker 1: she was like, but I love working here, and so
Speaker 1: I have a couple of companies. She works at one company,
Speaker 1: and she's like, I would love to you know, if
Speaker 1: there is space. I've she's been helping out with my
Speaker 1: other companies. She's like, I would love for that second
Speaker 1: source of income to come from you know, this other company,
Speaker 1: because I you know, I love working within the Budgetista
Speaker 1: family because either way, I have to make more money.
Speaker 1: She had a presentation broken down and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: So I said in my head, I thought she was
Speaker 1: just thinking about it. I was like, do you have
Speaker 1: an idea of what you want to make? She's like,
Speaker 1: I actually do. I did a little market research about that.
Speaker 3: I was so proud of it. I was like, does
Speaker 3: she take me in this class?
Speaker 1: So she gave me this like presentation yes, with market
Speaker 1: research about like the range of how much da da da,
Speaker 1: And I just was like, but I've learned because old
Speaker 1: Tiffany just be saying yes, yes, that's the tificany slow
Speaker 1: down because one I have to ask the company of
Speaker 1: mine that she does work for, to ask that CEO like,
Speaker 1: you know, do you have the space I don't want
Speaker 1: to encroach, like if you're like, oh my gosh, we're
Speaker 1: drowning here.
Speaker 3: And then too, because I was like hell yeah.
Speaker 1: Then I also but I also asked my team, you know,
Speaker 1: is this is this a position that you're needing me
Speaker 1: while my team is like MirOS and Logan.
Speaker 3: So I just asked Logan, I'm like, you need this girl,
Speaker 3: you know? She was like yes, girl. So I was
Speaker 3: like okay.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm learning too that even when
Speaker 1: if it seems like this amazing opportunity that like to
Speaker 1: slow down. I said, I'll let you know by monday
Speaker 1: with you yesterday and then I said, you know, so
Speaker 1: I was like, I spoke to the other the.
Speaker 3: Other CEO, I spoke to our team. Everyone's in agreement.
Speaker 1: Now I'm just going to talk to finance, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to share with her your you know,
Speaker 1: financial assessment, and then we're going to because sometimes what
Speaker 1: people do is when they make an assessment, they make
Speaker 1: this generalized assessment like I'm a CMO and this is
Speaker 1: what they make. Yes, but is it in the same industry,
Speaker 1: same business size, and so at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: our numbers are our numbers, you know. So I said,
Speaker 1: I can't you know, so I'm going to ask my
Speaker 1: CFO today, can you take a look, And then I'll
Speaker 1: ask our HR person does this make sense?
Speaker 3: And then I'll make current offer.
Speaker 1: But one I just say all that to say that,
Speaker 1: like you see how that all work professionally, because then
Speaker 1: she'll get a nothing necessarily an offer letter, but she'll
Speaker 1: definitely get like a new contract with with you know,
Speaker 1: with with my company. To say, you know, in addition
Speaker 1: to this, you have this kind of like additional income,
Speaker 1: but you should be you should feel free to have
Speaker 1: those kind of conversations. There should be some sort of
Speaker 1: like paper trail that comes along with it. And like,
Speaker 1: you know, you want people to value the things that
Speaker 1: you bring to the table. And so I just you know,
Speaker 1: you're really young, and I you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: you to be afraid to say, hey, should I get
Speaker 1: proof of what I'm getting paid? Absolutely, that's like that's
Speaker 1: that's the bars is in Its a zero for that.
Speaker 3: And so we wish you well be and you know,
Speaker 3: and you're really young.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping too that you know, put your work
Speaker 1: out there, you know, and you know, honestly, send me
Speaker 1: an email, send me a link. Like you know, I'm
Speaker 1: tippy at the budget needs to send me a link
Speaker 1: to your stuff. Because sometimes we do have outside things
Speaker 1: like you know where I'm just like, oh, we need
Speaker 1: somebody to make that for us.
Speaker 3: You know, you know, Mandy might need that too.
Speaker 1: So one thing you'll learn with especially when you work
Speaker 1: with entrepreneurs, is that people tend to come to us
Speaker 1: and say, who do you use for this? I love
Speaker 1: this thing that was made and so like you know, join.
Speaker 2: Entrepreneurs like designers.
Speaker 1: What you're on high demand economy girl, everybody's a gigs
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm just like, who needs.
Speaker 2: This kind of help?
Speaker 1: I promise you could make more than thirty something just
Speaker 1: off freelancing if you got yourself out there. There's literally
Speaker 1: like a Facebook group. If you haven't, even though you're young,
Speaker 1: you're probably not on Facebook. Join. There's a group called
Speaker 1: build It Launch It holds it with Rsha Arsha Jones.
Speaker 1: And I like this group because it's full with entrepreneurs,
Speaker 1: mostly women, and they're looking for people. And I would
Speaker 1: literally go into groups like this type in Graphic designer
Speaker 1: where people are saying they're looking for someone and then
Speaker 1: message them or say hey, I can do that, you know,
Speaker 1: like so I like I like doing that. So like
Speaker 1: it's I'm going to find you.
Speaker 3: Build brand.
Speaker 1: Let me see what is it with Arsha Build Okay brand,
Speaker 1: Build plus Launch with Arsha Jones. And it's literally tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of entrepreneurs and there's thirty five thousand, almost
Speaker 1: thirty six thousand members and almost all there I'm entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1: And if you type in the search bar graphic designer,
Speaker 1: I prompt you'll find work, and so we wish you
Speaker 1: well being like, you know, don't let them people take
Speaker 1: advantage of you. You're young, but you're not foolish, and
Speaker 1: so sometimes people see youth and they want to take
Speaker 1: advantage like, no, that's not okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And this is a great learning opportunity for
Speaker 2: you too, and a good learning lesson. Everyone's got to
Speaker 2: start somewhere, right, you're an intern, then you got paid
Speaker 2: kind of crappy money, like I had the same start
Speaker 2: in my career too, But it's just about how long
Speaker 2: are you going to stay there and allow them to
Speaker 2: continue to undervalue, right, So not any longer than you
Speaker 2: absolutely need to start building up that freelance those those
Speaker 2: freelance gigs you can start building that incremental in common
Speaker 2: then looking for, you know, a full time role that
Speaker 2: will actually pay you well. But we thank you for
Speaker 2: your question. I know it was a big one, but
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