The Post Game Podcast Ep. 8 - Jack Raines: Former College Football Player, Online Writer of Young Money
Jack is the writer of Young Money, a Finance blog that consists of everything from personal finance to travel stories to career advice.
He is also the editor of Exec Sum, a financial newsletter started by a popular meme page Litquidity.
After graduating from Mercer University and playing 4 years of football, he started down a traditional career path during COVID and quickly realized it wasn’t going to work for him.
Since then, he’s done some traveling, grown a newsletter to ~45,000 subscribers / ~250,000 readers, and is proof a traditional career path isn’t for everyone.
What You’ll Learn about:
Putting content out there to prove you can adequately do a job
Embarking on an untraditional path through writing online
Focusing on doing more things that will move the needle
Not going for the “big stuff” because we don’t have to
Good writing coming from good inputs
Advice for kids out of college entering the professional world
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Intro to Jack
(1:10) - Walking onto the Mercer Football team
(4:18) - Starting down a traditional career path at UPS
(6:25) - Starting career remotely during COVID
(9:00) - One way ticket to Barcelona
(10:30) - Starting finance blog to prove he can put out content
(12:00) - Leveraging internet stuff vs. consulting or banking
(15:16) - Getting outside the Internet Bubble and into Real World
(16:00) - Nothing Wrong with a normal job
(18:05) - Value of an Ivy League MBA
(20:30) - Leaning in to Resistance (Steven Pressfield)
(22:24) - Why do procrastinators procrastinate?
(25:30) - Internet can lack context
(28:45) - What’s next for Jack?
(33:00) - Advice to kids right out of college
(34:15) - Advice to kids wanting to travel for a bit
(35:40) - Thinking about starting your career as a writer?
(37:30) - Random Speed Round Questions
Where can you find Jack?
@JackRaines on X
LinkedIn: Jack Raines