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Creator Blog #7 - Co-working
🕑 Added 2022-08-18 14:00:09 +0000 UTCPeople are the sum of their experiences and exposure. After quitting my job to work on YouTube full time, I suddenly lost the social aspect found in a work environment. No more water cooler talk. No more Bagel Fridays. No more vacation stories and secrets traded. Office life was a huge part of my day-to-day. After all, I was there 40 hours a week.
But every lost is an open opportunity. While I did lose frequent connections to my old work colleagues, I had the new opportunity to network with other freelancers and business owners. Now, I regularly co-work with another independent professional at a local coffee shop and I’m starting to find other people who have taken this similar path of being their own business.
Starting out, I thought it would be lonely for a very long time. But it turns out, I just had to know where to look and how to reach out.
It’s very important to have a network. Not just for opportunities, but for mutual development, growth, and sanity.
These are the top three ways I found my community:
- Attending local networking events
- Participating in online discussions
- Volunteering at a local charities
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Jim Allen
It’s ironic how opportunities come to people that look for and willing to act on them.
