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848: How to Quickly Grow and Future-Proof Your Career with Jason Feifer

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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What Do I Have, What Do You Need and What's Available?

When you're stuck, what's available to you right now? What is it that you're looking at a wall? In my case, in that particular situation, I thought, well, okay, nobody's going to hire me. The New York Times is not hiring me, but there's another way in. A lot of what you read in newspapers and magazines are written by freelancers. They're independent contractors who have generally pitched a single story and an editor has said yes to it. And then they go out and they report that single story. So why don't I start doing that?"

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