332 - Jimmy Yang: Stop Being Bored at Work… Risk Stability & Find Your Next Career Move

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James Altucher

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4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Jimmy Yang veered into comedy not out of love, but out of desperation. He writes about this in his new book “How to American”. “I was picturing myself sitting behind a desk until I was 65 at the same job,” Jimmy said. He knew he had another...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:10.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.0	You graduate with this economics degree.
0:18.0	You go from strip club DJ to Uber driver to stand up comedy.
0:22.0	What gave you the kind of ability to say,
0:25.0	nope, I'm not going to do what my parents want me to do.
0:27.0	I think it's fear and desperation.
0:29.0	What were you afraid of?
0:30.0	I mean, just picturing myself sitting behind a desk until 65.
0:34.0	A lot of people say, okay, I'll do this for a few years while I pursue another dream, right?
0:38.0	You didn't do that.
0:39.0	I just, I couldn't.
0:40.0	I couldn't after two months at this internship.
0:42.0	I literally want to kill myself.
0:43.0	I can't do it.
0:45.0	Physically, it was impossible.
0:46.0	What veered you into comedy?
0:49.0	Look, it takes a lot of desperation, especially for me who never really grew up with stand-up.
0:55.0	I wasn't like, oh, I saw Eddie Murphy on stage, I need to do stand-up at some point.
0:58.0	It wasn't that.
0:59.0	It was just like, oh fuck, what am I doing in my life?
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