Post by @lnparkx

day in the life of a marketing lead living in la, moving to nyc very soon! 💌 i’ve been getting questions about my career, and rather than make a whole video about it, here’s the longer version! almost 4 years ago, i got laid off from a company where i’d grown its socials more than 40x, to hundreds of thousands of followers. i knew i wanted a new challenge, but i was scared to interview again because my last job search had been full of rescinded offers, hiring freezes, and interviews that suddenly stopped. when my entire company got laid off, i redid my portfolio and felt excited to tell the stories of what i’d built. within four business days of being unemployed, i had a new job. super grateful. i joined a small yc startup because i wanted to build a marketing function from the ground up, and that’s what i spent the next year and a half doing. if you’ve seen me constantly flying from la to sf, that was this role. i was the only remote person on my team, and between those trips and events across the country, i felt like i was always on a plane. i learned so much there. i built a department, managed a team, got promoted, and watched my work reach people who went on to use the product. i felt very valued, but the travel took a toll and i kept wondering what it would be like to market a product i could use myself and immediately relate to. as a director, i also started feeling like whatever i could think of was the ceiling for marketing, and i wanted to work with people who could challenge me and teach me things i didn’t know yet. the hard part was that i wasn’t leaving because things were going badly. i had great relationships with my team, i’d recently been promoted, and i could see the company growing into something much bigger. honestly, leaving felt a little like calling it quits early, before i got to see everything i’d poured into it fully compound into something greater than me. but at some point i had to ask myself where i wanted to give my time, my youth, and my brainpower. i wanted to care about the product in a way that felt personal to me, and work with people whose experience made me think, “wait, how did you do that, and what could we build together?” i was intentional with my search because i wasn’t willing to leave something i’d helped build just to end up at a company i didn’t care about. for the roles i really wanted, i’d cold dm more than 5 people on the team to make sure my application was seen. eight companies i pursued that way led to six interviews. i wasn’t scouted, and i didn’t just apply and hope for the best. it still wasn’t a smooth process. i got a verbal offer elsewhere that was rescinded four days later, which brought back every fear i had about job searching. i think i dodged a bullet, but it was discouraging. a couple of months after my promotion, i got the offer for the job i’m in now. the product, the people, and the creative work felt so aligned with what i’d been looking for, and i’ve been genuinely happy since joining. my team is in new york, so now i’m packing up my life in la and moving across the country. i think the lesson for me is that you can be doing well, getting promoted, and working with people you really care about, and still want a different life for yourself. leaving doesn’t always mean someone treated you badly or that you’re ungrateful. sometimes choosing how you want to spend your days is hard, even when the thing you’re leaving is good. and honestly, having my job situation feel right doesn’t mean the rest of my life is figured out. moving to another state is exciting, but it’s a huge decision with so much i can’t control. someone might have their dream job and be dealing with family problems you know nothing about. sometimes i laugh at how much energy i put into my career when other parts of my life feel like a mess. so have grace with yourself, and be kind to people. what someone chooses to show you is not the whole story. #dayinthelife #asmr #Vlog #dayinmylife #workvlog