Jeremy Chevalier is the Marketing Director at Crash and founder of GigLoft (https://gigloft.com/). Like every member of the Crash team, he hasn't followed the traditional path to where he is now. He's experimented, taken risks, and learned from experience. Jeremy joins Isaac on this week's episode to talk about his career journey and how career trajectories are changing.
Learn more about Jeremy's story on his solo audio essay: https://anchor.fm/career-crashers/episodes/Audio-Essay---How-I-Got-My-First-Design-Job-With-No-Experience-and-Broke-Into-the-Design-Industry-by-Jeremy-Chevallier-eabnl7
In this episode:
- Why Jeremy left at a marketing agency to start his own company
- Making a leap of faith to start his own agency with friends
- How Jeremy leaned from his work helping new designers at GigLoft
- Why Jeremy has continually pursued entrepreneurial opportunities instead of just getting a steady design job at a big agency
- How freelance work led Jeremy to a full-time opportunity with Crash
- How the barriers between freelancers and full-time employees are breaking down
- What a career trajectory means in 2020
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