Ep. 9: What It’s Really Like Working in Social Media Marketing, Moving to NYC for Your Dream Job, and The Reality of Living and Working in NYC ft. Lara Rawson

But What's Next? with Michelle Reed

Michelle Reed

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Michelle interviews her former co-worker and friend Lara Rawson, who works at a social media marketing agency in NYC. Lara shares what it's actually like working in social media in NYC, how to move to NYC, and the expectations vs. realities of living in a city. We talk about being financially stable in your 20s, while also touching on advice for those wanting to work in social media marketing and how she got her first job post-grad.

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0:00.0	Hi guys welcome back to the podcast this This is But What's Next with me, Michelle Reed? I am so, so excited for this episode because it was technically my first podcast that I actually interviewed someone. I'm not really sure if these
0:24.3	are going up in the order that I'm recording them, but this was the first official one.
0:28.9	I'm so excited for this episode because Laura is such a sweet friend of mine.
0:33.6	She actually worked with me whenever I worked my
0:36.8	traditional 9 to 5 that I left.
0:39.0	And I just really, really admired her as a person.
0:42.0	She is such a hard worker and actually just got promoted.
0:46.0	She is absolutely incredible.
0:47.4	I love her.
0:48.8	But the main reason why I wanted to have her on
0:50.6	was on my YouTube channel, I've always gotten so many questions about
0:54.5	moving to New York City specifically for your first job and for me I moved here
1:00.1	for college if you guys don't know me. I moved my freshman year of
1:03.2	college and so it's a lot different living here and being here post-grad when you do
1:09.2	kind of have all of your college friends here. My network's here this is just kind of where I've always been and so it's
1:15.5	hard for me to give advice for people who are moving here because I just feel like I've been here for so long, but
1:21.9	Laura actually moved from Florida and she moved here whenever she started her job and
1:26.5	we'll go into the store but she actually moved here before she even had her first job.
1:31.0	So she is such a hard worker. She's so motivated and she works in the
1:36.0	social media marketing industry. If that is something that you're interested, she kind of
1:39.6	touched on tips for going into that industry things to know expectations versus realities but the main
1:46.4	focus is on living in New York City and kind of being here post-grad getting your first job which I don't know I feel like that's a goal for a lot of people I feel like moving to New York City after college is kind of like the main time that people do it and so I thought that this would be a good episode to have her odd. I love Laura. She's great. I'll have her information down in these show notes of this podcast, but on my YouTube channel I feel like I don't really mention a lot of my friends or kind of include them in the content and so it's
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