The Next Best Gig with Carly Ayres

07/21/20 • 49 min

While it may seem like some people always land on their feet, in reality, everyone’s career path has unexpected twists, turns, and the occasional dead end. Carly Ayres, now working on UX Community & Culture at Google, has plenty of titles under her belt (designer at Creative Mornings, author at CommunicationArts, co-founder of Hawraf, to name a few) but her journey as a creative began with a drive to explore the unknown and lean into learning, wherever the opportunity presented itself.

For more on Carly Ayers visit: www.carlyayres.com
Hosted by Blake Howard
Produced by Matchstic: www.matchstic.com
Intermission music & editing by Michael Engelking
Illustration by Rachel Eleanor: www.rachel-eleanor.com

07/21/20 • 49 min

The Creative Rising - The Next Best Gig with Carly Ayres

Transcript

Blake Howard00:00:00.000

I used to call myself a specialist generalist or a generalist specialist generally specializing in blank, blank, blank blank, I'd like fill in the blanks based on what, what was the interest of the week. And that ended up being very difficult for other people to decide what they could hire me for, which is something I figured out pretty quickly. But I do think it is. People want to put you in this box. And I think it's a really useful box beca

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