The New Way to Work: Charlie Hoehn at TEDxCMU 2011
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- What happens when you’re looking for a job in the middle of a recession? Stop doing what people tell you to do. Charlie Hoehn talks about making up your own rules and how he started only working on things he wanted to pursue and how it changed his life.
Charlie's advice kicks ass, I sent an email off for free work, now i'm project managing, working on public relations, media and sponsorship, it's a ton of work, but I love it and am gaining huge experience.
excellent
This is probably the best advice one college graduate can put into action. Pretty inspiring talk.
I wish I had this advice 20 years ago when I was just finishing school. This is an excellent advice and I hope everyone who is in their 20's watch this and learn from it, even if you are not going to follow your dream. Why? Well, just wait 20 years and see. You'll know.
The important message here is work on things that you are passionate about and with people who inspire you. I do this daily as an entrepreneur. There is no other formula.
I love this video, highly recommend it. One of my favorite TED speech Ive herd.
Excellent Charlie.
An inspiring idea, put across with a sense of humour and you kept to the time - as Dan Pink says, the keys to a great speech are, Brevity, Levity & Repetition - so, you nailed it!
Found this in March 2020. My timing is perfect!!!
Great job young man!! It sounds like you have utilized a few of Napolean Hill's 17 success principles!! PMA, Going the extra mile, creative vision, pleasing personality, personal initiative, learning from defeat, budgeting time & money, and a few others on the list!! OUTSTANDING!! Most importantly to me is your creative vision to think of something like this!! Must have been a very thoughtful time you spent on your bathroom floor LOL!! Anyway, good luck to you in your future endeavors!!
Great talk! Short and simple but very powerful. Charlie is going places.
Fantastic talk Charlie. I've loved this concept ever since you published your ebook/slides on it. I've been promoting this idea to friends and family and will do so again by posting this video. Well done!
Nice work Charlie; a breath of fresh air in re-thinking how and what we learn...
Charlie- you are spot on! Free work works!
I'm 62, and all my life I've had no idea what the inner me wants to do. I'll retire this year, yes get the Social Sec now, and this guy is talkin' to me.
Life update? Did you do any free work? Are you doing something you love now? did you find your inner you?
so excellent me too
i follow this path again and again
truth right here, this man must be listened to.
Great talk, well wroth watching regardless of your current employment situation!
To respond to KirilsYag, Charlie was specific about doing excellent work, let me repeat, EXCELLENT work to show that you are more than worthy of being hired. He wasn't just licking envelopes or something that anyone could do. I don't think it's a matter of making someone feel obligated to hire you just because you did some free work for them. You want them to say, "Wow! His work is damn good. Hmm. I don't want to let this guy go." It has nothing to do with ethics.
It was an excellent talk! Thnx!
This talk could be titled 'The deadly danger of having both a job and a girlfriend.'
Good advice. Even "engineers" and "doctors" who have just graduated have to undergo on the job training, close supervision, and several more years *learning* the real skills required for their chosen career. College does not give you skills - it gives you a piece of paper. I went back to college at 35 to get a BSc in Biotechnology. I spent years choosing carefully, and made the most of those 4 years to learn the skills too. Most college grads blindly choose their career at 17. They need this!
YESSSSS!! That's what I recently started doing at 62 after losing my 20+ year as a very senior software engineer in 2001 due to a combination of the dot com bubble bursting and Bill Clinton's China Free Trade Agreement that sent tons of software engineering jobs to India and China. After all these years, I'm trying to get back into high tech with no tech experience since then. There's no way I could get an interview for a paid gig, so I picked a technology I want to work in and I'm trying to find free work to get a foot in the door. Hoping my overall experience, although awhile ago, will help compensate for my age.
All technologies today were not around when I was forced to leave software engineering in 2001, so I've been taking great free online courses in edX in my area of interest.
Good for you, Charlie!
You can do this even with no parents to support you. Be grateful for the lowly job, live severely cheap and save a stash, and you're on your way.
Absolutely loved it! Now this IS an invitation to a live more Playfulife!!! Thanks Charlie @playitaway :)
Great points, Charlie.
I practice a similar approach, and I'm 46. I wrote about specific ideas on my blog.
Excellent advice. Thank you.
this is my credo since 2011
*SUMMARY:* Do Free Work -> Get Paid to do Work You Love:
1. Choose Areas You'd like to Work in
2. Get Marketable Skills
3. Build your Online Presence
4. Make a Side Income and Cut Expenses
5. Make Contact & Prove Your Worth with a Free Work Proposal:
* Courteous Introduction:
* 3 Examples of free work related to your skills
* Call to Action: “If you like these ideas, I’m happy to work on them for the next two weeks at no cost. I’d also love to discuss the possibility of working together more in the future. Can you talk this week?"
6. Transition to Paid Work!!!
“As long as there are problems to be solved, there will always be work.”
I wish I was in the group of people this is directed to; however, even at 60, there are some tips to be learnt.
You'd be surprised. I found out my passion after graduating with a degree I no longer want to use :)
majinspy has it. Most job are boring, humilitating, frustrating, etc., which is why we get paid to do them. The secret for most of us is to change our attitude and approach to our job. Search for videos on how to change your attitude and approach, on how to use your job as a training ground for self-improvement and self-expression, etc. It's not easy to change your attitude in a crummy job, but is easier than find that perfect job which may not even exist.
@gillianorley Not everyone gets into the major of their choice, and some people graduate not wanting to do a job related to their major. Sometimes the job markets changes and by the time you finish your degree, the skills that you've learned are no longer in demand. And by skills, he means very specific skills related to a specific job. Just because you're an engineering major doesn't mean you have all the skills required to do any and all kinds of engineering...
Love this guy's attitude, and this is indeed the story of our generation, but you can't deny that the audience for this begins and ends with entitled rich kids. This approach realizes what you knew all along, that you were indeed destined to do exactly what you want and not be bored. That attitude is the true cause of my generation's malaise, not the poor economy and not internships. If everyone who would rather go into advertising than electrical school does so, we're screwed.
I'm actually doing something like this now, but what is this side work he's talking about? I have no income because service jobs, like any other aren't laying around to be scooped up. I'm on my way with my own strategy and will add some of what he suggests. But without help like my parents I would have the option of free work.
Well, I can say firsthand as an attorney who works with many CPAs that law and accounting are two professions that have continuing education requirements in order to maintain a licence to practice, although I have to say that these fields do not change that rapidly if at all. The legal principals I learned in law school 20 years ago still apply today. GAP accounting rules change a bit, but not much and not rapidly. I assume doctors and civil engineers have similar continuing ed requirements.
Lol, true engough! Same here.
Actually I did more: I made the step causing more loss than my payment, and stopped working. So then the guy asked every friends of him to not give me work, and "promised" the payment he owed me for a half year already.
So then I told him: "Good, I gona be homeless. Then I prefer drinking over working for you." So got paid at the end, with all my other jobs gone. Can't pay the bills again.
My advice: Never work for free! That sends the message you worth nothing.
So all I need is a truck tent, a part time job and someone willing to take me on as a volunteer to make a network. It seems simple enough but most of us have school debts.
Contrary to popular belief, perpetual movement during a presentation actually HOLDS audience attention. Standing still while keeping your hands motionless merely puts the audience to sleep. Regardless of the subject matter it is important to be as animated as possible. Engage the audience!
What he's saying about engineering degrees rendered obsolete doesn't apply to ANY field, not even computer engineering. No engineering degree becomes useless because the degree teaches you the fundamentals of (insert field, e.g. computers) It will not become useless in any length of time because obtaining the degree means that you can learn about any "new technology" at a rate exponentially higher than someone who does not have the degree. It's REQUIRED in engineering to gain useful experience.
the line at 6:38 is hilarious. nice talk
It doesn't make sense that an engineering degree is obsolete within 2-5 years, because it is the most sought after degree field directly after graduation, and by that point you will already have a job, and the experience in the field can carry you from there. If anything, engineering is the least obsolete degree you can get.
This quote from Good Will Hunting makes the point in one sentence. "...you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin' education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library."
To continue my last post, I've covered the "professions," but any field, professional or otherwise, involves learning and keeping current as part of one's career.
If you graduated with a computer science degree in 1995 and had done nothing in the field since, you would be pretty behind the curve. So you get a degree and then work in that field which keeps you current with new developments. College is too expensive. Let's address that rather than say college is no longer useful.
Most degrees, professional or otherwise, are obsolete within 2-5 years - especially engineering degrees. What he is suggesting is perpetual adaptation toward the elimination of obsolescence . He is correct inasmuch as the "value" of college degrees (return on investment) has diminished substantially over the last 20 years. The cost of college today vs the anticipated return is grossly maligned.
It might seem like a lot to do, but any crap job is a lot to do, too.
charlie ur the best
Any examples of what sort of hard to learn + high demand skills can you gain after you graduate from university?
Works well for the motivated, skilled, and unattached. THATS IT
well said Charlie.. (sorry I missed to note what have you done)
@gillianorley Well anyone can find work doing something, but I think the idea is living a life doing something that you're passionate about, or doing something that's meaningful to you rather than simply selecting a major that will get you a "good" job. Otherwise the world would be full of doctors, lawyers and engineers. Employers probably complain about not being able to get quality applicants because they require 3-5 years of industry experience, and the only ones applying are recent grads...
excellent
Great Idea. I would love to find a skilled internet geek who can proof s/he can keep innovating. Exploration is the best way to business, it leads to partnership and not just salary.
Here's the problem: Not everyone can be captain badass and do all of these things. There aren't that many "slots". SOMEONE has to work at verizon wireless. No matter what the path is, as soon as its public, people will beat the door down and make it just one more rung on the ladder. It used to be college. Then everyone went there. Now its this. There is no end bc at the end of the day (yah cliche i know) there are a lot of ope vacancies at the verizon store.
@gillianorley Have you seen the latest statistics for college grads, their success at finding jobs, and the amount of debt they've incurred to receive their educations?
Great, now I only have to figure out what am I passion about. Apart from watching random TED talks...
Sigh welcome to the world of artists...btw its amazing if something pans out but for a lot of people it never really does.
Competitiveness necessary to get hired these days makes me afraid. That's why I will create my own job.
What's worse about Indeed, Monster, Careerbuilder etc. (approx. 6:03) is that HR departments and recruiters often post jobs that don't exist just so they can collect resumes for their own future convenience. You can waste your time on the whole, asinine, ATS application process, including the psychological surveys (because of course you should have to reveal details of your psyche and upbringing to a company you have no relationship with and hasn't offered you anything!) only to never hear from the company even if you are qualified- all because the whole job posting was a fraud.
I would like a transcript if anyone can post it. It would be very appreciated and thanks in advance.
I hate to ask this but what did he study in college? I really cringed when typing this but I ask that...
If you get educated based on demand and pay instead of what you actually *want* to do, you're not going to be the best you could be and you're not going to be happy with your work. His Venn diagram seems to be missing one circle, though; "things you are interested in". You need to acquire skills that are in high demand, difficult to learn and interesting to you.
the pacing wouldn't be so bad if the camera would have just panned out
Instead of wasting $160K on college studying marketing and communications and then getting a job through free work, why not learn something that is difficult and in high demand to start? This doesn't face the real problem - kids who head off to college to have fun and who study something easy and expect a great career as a prize in the end. You need to learn something hard and rigorous to start, not begin after you get out of college.
So let other people fill those slots, and be one of the smart ones.
Wrong. Movement for EMPHASIS of PARTICULAR POINTS holds audience attention. Movement of the body (back and forth walking) is distracting. If you were to move to a certain part of the stage for a purpose (for emphasis on a particular point in space, e.g. my product is HERE) then that is extremely useful. However, back and forth pacing adds nothing to a presentation.
Prob helps to live at your parents
This video was actually one of the reasons I switched from getting a cookie cutter business degree to a computer science BS haha
Goddammit I like turtles.
"And eventually, we have to pay for our sins. Com' on, let's get real." (He says about the U.S.)
Just as the value of a car diminishes over time it's usefulness may remain the same contingent upon it's condition.
What if I'm 37?
i want to start working for free so i can pursuit what i want stress-free... but i need to pay my bills somehow :(
and then I start getting paid and the whole thing just goes on over and over...
cool. Maybe you should try it and tell me when you make lots of money doing it.
I did not suggest that college is not useful.
@TheSkiBlog He was very nervous... you can sense it in his voice too =p
Free work... I guess it is better presented volunteering.
whats wrong with working with Verizon! beats me!
He kind of looks like Chase from House (tv show)
Well sorry, I should have waited 15sec more ;)
u 'r goddamn RIGHT ;)
"I hate Verizon"... I think Louis CK would have something to say about that.....
Is he the guy from national lampoons?
I hate verizon too
I don't think doing internship work will help you find the dream area you are searching for. Internships (intern-sheeps) also have a boss, and if you are as lucky as the rest of the 99 population you will endup with a jerk super demanding boss that will treat you like crap.
Who the hell has the time to spend months of months on switching jubs just to test them....you eventually will waste your youth and end -up on a job that you hate but pays...just to pay your overdue bills and loans that you made during internship exploration
Nice hip-hop gestures
Did you even listen to the talk?
He specifically explains the difference between internships and free work and advocates against useless internships.
???, not sure I understand completely what you are saying!! Can you be a little more specific? seriously, not being a jerk or nothing...thanks
@lpminecraftvideos *hard* degree does not equal *top* degree. Not to dismiss the effort and brains it takes to get a neuropsychology degree, but I'm not exactly aware of a boom in neurotechnology jobs.
And apparently this guy thinks everyone who graduates with a degree in engineering can easily land a job.
Has anyone ever looked at the computer systems in the majority of businesses? The majority use OLD systems. The OLD off white yellowish systems with command line or DOS. A huge amount of places still use Windows 2000 or XP. They are slowly getting Windows 7. They use the mentality, if it aint broke, don't fix it. The proof is in the rise of hackers. To say these jobs that administer these machines will be obsolete is ridiculous.
Anyone else read this and think... 'Open source software development'?
lol @ the Ed Hardy dig
Super Like... ^_^
Have you studied Smarter Money Maker? (Go google it) It is a promising way for you to get much more money fast.
Where you even listening? Go back to step 4.
Three people are unemployed.
Wait, no, that doesn't sound right....
5:55 i would suggest to change "hot" with "worthy" broadly speaking ;)
xD
Charlie is a very smart kid, but, please, STOP WALKING NEXT TIME.
Talk about wage slavery... working for free? That's like slavery, in the hope of future wages. Even worse!
I'm not criticizing the people that try this. But the more and more people do this, the more competitive it will be, and people will work for less and less pay, worse and worse conditions.
The wealth gap is insanely huge in America, and it's obviously getting worse.
So who gets to do the work that the privileged don't love and don't find meaningful?
95% of America's population
+Al Sunshine Just because "The Privileged" don't fine it meaningful, doesn't mean someone else won't. Perspective.
You work the crap job you can get because you are over qualified. Wendy's, Verizon, anything. But you don't settle for that. You don't go out and party. You then work on projects on the side as suggested here. Edumacate yourself. Contact people. Dooooo stuff. Blog intelligently about what you do and what you learn from it.
If possible, start this while still in school. More professors should help students find projects like this to do instead of homework.
Or you could stay poor and unhappy.
I'm a douchebag. All I need is an Ed Hardy shirt, and I will get all the hot chicks at the bar :-)
he's gotta be freaking averagely rich when he pulled that off..unlike the rest of us. Gotta eat ya know.. & that constant back and forth walking made me dizzy that i didnt care finishing the vid..~_~
He's nervous, it's easy to see that ;)
"Unique Snowflake"?
...Is he referencing "Fight Club"?
please stop walking around. it's distracting me from paying attention to your talk