Jon

"if it's a business I can get behind, if it's a concept or kind of a guiding purpose that aligns with my values, I'm all in on it."

"keep the ship afloat, do my best to continue to build it bigger and bigger, and put out every fire that comes up pretty much on a daily basis."

"every day is different"

"The most important skills for this type of job are having people skills. That's gotta be near the top."

"I enjoy the people, and I kind of enjoy being able to strive to fulfill our mission."

"I haven't been able to connect with too many people who are doing something similar to what I am"

"It's a really shady industry. Uh, there's a lot of bad actors, there's a lot of unlicensed contractors."

"You need to be a go-getter. You need to be self-motivated, um, and have the ability to work on the fly to be able to juggle a lot of things."

"It is not easy and it's not gonna happen quickly. Um, and it doesn't get any easier, or at least I'm not there yet."

"early in a career, it's probably better to get the experience of a generalist or be a specialist in something that you think you wanna do, but on a team with other specialists and ideally another generalist to get exposure into all these different realms of marketing."

"While there is certainly such thing as a wrong answer, there is rarely in this industry a right answer."

"you want something, go do it. Um, and it doesn't exist. You can create it."