Lincoln Design Co. on Hiring Yourself & Leveraging Your Side Hustle

<h2>Lincoln Design Co. on Hiring Yourself & Leveraging Your Side Hustle</h2><p>Which type of person are you?</p><ol><li>The type of person who just shows up at your day job to get the work done so you can clock out, go home, and binge some Netflix or watch hours of cat videos/people falling down?</li><li>The type of person who can’t turn off the love for creating so you work on things you love outside of work (aka side hustle) and leverage those skills for both day job and personal work?</li></ol><p>Because you’re listening to this podcast, it’s safe for me to assume you’re the second type of individual or are striving to become this person.</p><p>I never was truly person #1, as I always craved to do something more outside of my previous day jobs...but I never took myself seriously until I was like 26 and a year into Perspective-Collective.</p><p>However, designing, drawing, and just creating in general has been flowing through my veins my entire life.</p><p>Person #2 is the type of person who can’t shut it off. You see good as well as bad design/art all around you 24/7.</p><p>You’re the type of person who is drawing something in your mind as you try to sleep and then you can’t wait to wake up to bring it to life.</p><p>You keep a notepad by your bed to collect those killer reoccurring thoughts, or you have a water proof note pad in your shower because those are where the best ideas come from.</p><p>You’re the kind of person who doesn’t eat at a restaurant because the logo is horrible.</p><p>You won’t watch a DVD strictly because the font choice is whack.</p><p>You point out poor kerning to your significant other even though they could care less.</p><p>Or you get out your phone to capture that dope neon sign, fading mural, or sick badge on a man hole cover.</p><p>You live for this shit, and that’s how you know that you’re made to be a creative. Now it’s time to put in the work.</p><p>Today’s episode features a squad of goons who can’t turn off the creative switch and were clearly cut from a different cloth. The w