Are You Going to Hate Everything You've Ever Done?

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Take pride in your work. Pride and arrogance are two very different things. Be willing to put everything you can into making that the best possible solution for your users, for your business and for your own sense of self. Don't set such an unrealistically high expectation and not be able to deliver on that. You're going to burn out. It's not worth it. If i've dissuaded you from pursuing this after hearing that, you can stop listening now. But if not, if you're like, if i've like, motivated you, then let's keep going.

Video available on the show notes page at userdefenders.com/080

This is the last episode of 2021. After nearly two years of outlining the content for this episode and nearly two months (at time of writing) of recording and editing, here's everything I know (so far) on landing a job in UX. I hope this content is not only useful to you and anyone you know looking to land their first (or next) job in UX, but I sincerely hope this episode is greatly inspirational and even life-changing for you. I forgot to say it at the end of the episode, so Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Joyous New Year dear Defenders! Take care of yourself and each other, and I'll see you on the other side of this year with more amazing UX/Design content! 👊 Jason.

Song credit at the end "Comeback Kid" by The Midnight

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Origin (4:50)
Count the Costs (9:53)
Portfolio (21:18)
Resume (29:49)
Networking (35:03)
Applying (40:38)
Interviewing (50:11)
Negotiating (1:02:32)
In Closing (1:09:45)

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