Hey, what's up? Thank you for joining me today. My name is Chris Kill about this is

SIDUSL School, a daily podcast all about creating personal freedom through the form of an

income generating project. I've got a really interesting story for you today. It points

to a creative strategy that you can use in lots of different fields. The story itself

is about a social media manager, social media strategist. He gets creative. He finds

a way to, and in the course of about a year, bring in $10,000 a month. Within a year, he's

built his business to a $10,000 a month level. In a short version of this strategy, what

I really want to talk about here, when companies post job openings, they're not necessarily

committed to hiring full-time employees. They're posting a job opening because that's

what they're used to doing. Ultimately, what they want to do is accomplish a certain

task, get some responsibilities taken care of, achieve a certain outcome. In this story,

the social media strategist who happens to be laid off, he loses his job, and then decides

to go apply for some of those job openings, but in a freelance capacity. In other words,

he applies for jobs, but says I don't actually want to work there. We'll dive into the details

in a moment, and then in the end, I'll spend a few minutes considering some other fields

that this strategy might work with. It could get somebody thinking out there. If you're

trying to think creatively, if you're trying to figure out what can I do that's a little

bit different, well, perhaps this story is for you. We're going to call it to find freelance

work, look at full-time job listings. That story is coming up in just 30 seconds.

Damian Taylor began his social media career after joining a startup. It was one of the

first YouTube multi-channel networks. He was responsible for tracking data and setting

strategies across YouTube and other channels to grow the company's audience. But unfortunately,

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