Truth about future plans in job hunt

[Tim Kolb]

I’d say that if this sport in question is truly underserved, then it’s likely that most established production businesses don’t see a market there…

Why not mention that you work on those types of video on the side if the potential employer doesn’t do that sort of work? It does reveal some initiative…

This way you could do those projects and really step back for a couple years and see if it develops into something that warrants a full-time commitment…and still be working and supporting yourself and gaining experience.

“…if you never lie, you never have to remember anything” as my grandfather used to tell me.

-I think it’s a matter of you tweaking your mindset a little instead of your story. Getting that first job and gaining experience is probably the first goal…then wait and see if the other area really holds an opportunity for a career or it’s a really good hobby that you can enjoy and accumulate toys while you develop your skills working for other people in businesses you don’t have to lay awake at night worrying about…

…it’s a thought.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Mark Suszko]

Can this employer be “sold” by you on getting into the field, with you as the pilot for the project? Share the risk, share the profits.

If you don’t want to go that way, keep it to yourself and work on it on your free weekends.

When I interviewed for my last job, the boss wrapped up by talking about their high turnover and asking me how long I thought I’d stay with them. The pat answer, the disingenuous answer, would be:” oh, as long as you’ll have me”. The truth you may say to yourself inside your skull is: “Until I find something better and more stable.” The answer I came up with on the fly was truthful without being fawning:

“As long as I can keep learning and developing my skills, and doing meaningful work, making a creative contribution.”

That puts some of the question back at the employer: if you treat me well and let me keep growing, I’ll stay loyal. If you treat me like a disposable component, and don’t nurture or appreciate my talents, you can’t keep me. And that’s only fair. That’s only the truth, in any hiring situation. You stay because you want to or because you have to. Want to is more powerful long-term than have to.

Have to is simply solved with the application of money. Anybody’s money.

Want to is solved by the application of proper management.

Ask yourself if the question is a job question or a career question. Rarely does one job make an entire career these days.

[Richard Herd]

Consider forming an LLC and getting a “hobbyist” business license.

The LLC will limit your liability, and a hobbyist business license will regulate your sales to somewhere around $5,000/year (depending on the local municipal code).

With those two things, you are not a business threat to an employer.