Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 167 with Nick Campbell.

We had a whole lot of fun and laughs with this one talking conspiracy theories and how that

can turn into jobs and so much more.

So you're going to learn one, a process to find the connection between what you love and what pays.

Two, how to sidestep all the requirements that job boards claim you need,

and three, why it's ideal to be the worst in the room.

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we reference here.

You'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep one six seven.

And while you're at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out some of our really cool stuff.

One thing I'd highlight here is our 10 Days to Winning at Work

email course, which has a lot of bite-sized actionable nuggets

taken from my enhanced thinking collaboration training programs, which has been shown to slash about 1.4 hours of waste out of each work week.

So you can make that work for you individually to do some more cool

strategic fun creative stuff at work or just get a chance to get home early.

So here is Nick's story.

Nick Campbell grew up in Detroit. He's the oldest son of a fireman and a

roller skating teacher. He lived a curious life trying to figure out how things worked.

He's been lucky to always have jobs doing things he loved, including selling magic tricks,

performing yo-yo tricks, DJing parties, photography, motion graphics, 3D animation, software development,

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