On this episode of Career Crashers, Jason Rink joins the show. Jason is CEO and Executive Creative Director at Simplifilm and in this episode shares his story from dropping out of film school, to a career in financial services, to making the jump to a film career.
Learn more about Jason at http://www.jasonrink.com/ and https://simplifilm.com/
In this episode:
- Jason's career journey from dropping out, to banking, to film.
- Realizing that he wanted to move out of commercial banking and how to look around at what types of new career opportunities his past interests and career capital would be well suited for.
- How working in commercial banking wasn't what Jason wanted to work on for the rest of his life, but it helped him learn many skills that were valuable when he decided to make the jump to his new career.
- How a role at a non-profit, helped Jason as an intermediate step between his career in banking and starting a film company.
- Why working for others is often the best path to working for yourself.
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