![]() ![]() I got to see an old Ren & Stimpy cel from the banned episode and the actual pilot reel for Hey Arnold. I was a Vault Intern helping archive old Nickelodeon assets. My relationship with Nickelodeon first started when I interned with the studio back in Spring of 2013. This studio has given me so many incredible opportunites that still dumbfounds me til this day. Nickelodeon has treated me well in my professional animation career. It has helped students land internships at major studios like DreamWorks Animation and LAIKA. If you’re a college student looking to land an animation internship, be sure to check out my book, “ How to Get an Animation Internship” for insightful knowledge to securing your first animation internship. In this blog post, I'm going to be telling you how I switched careers from finance to animation. So I looked in the mirror for the next week and a half to find out that I needed to change something…so that's just what I did. “For the past 33 years, I’ve looked in the mirror and asked myself, ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” There’s a part of his speech that always stuck to me (at 9:22). In times like these, I tend to listen to Steve Job's Stanford commencement speech. To put it simply~ I felt like this job was draining an important part of me. The work became boring and worst of all, I felt I was in a creative rut. However, things started to change mid-year. I also enjoyed my team and became close friends with one of my co-workers. In the beginning, I didn't mind working at Lionsgate because my work hours were flexible, the pay was great, and my commute was half a block. One of my personal goals for 2019 was to switch careers from being a Financial Analyst at Lionsgate, to becoming a Production Assistant at an animation studio. ![]()
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