JR Dawkins’ Post

Five Hats is back next week. This week I'm done pretending everything is fine & that I can find my next role on my own… Friday was the 18th time this year I got referred for something "posted yesterday" & a hiring manager agreed I'd be great but they're actually already on 4th rounds. Honestly, that's preferable & I need your help getting ahead of that! This week is two years since I was laid off at Yahoo.  I vividly remember my awesome boss teared up on my last day, sure that the emerging tech creators org I built up from square one, 260 productions, 20m users, 7 awards, "I'd have a new role in no time." I told her that by my analysis, respectfully, I thought she was wrong.  I took my severance, started a new company, hustled, RFP'd, interviewed, taught, & never landed anything to support me or my family.  I never thought it'd be this bad.  If you know of a role, interesting or not– ping me.  If you're looking for someone creative, technical, versatile, passionate, hungry, masters degree & a self-taught quick learner, a clear educator & avid mentor, analytical, diplomatic, with 20 years in startups, corporations, 501s, institutions, impact-driven & growth-driven, then read my Linkedin recommendations & schedule a chat with me on Calendly.com/hwkeyser "Well what role do you want?" -- I hate that question for two reasons:  First, beggars can't be choosers & this post isn't me being choosy.  I most commonly search producer, program manager, & technologist roles, but I've gone final round or had offers put on hold on CTO, COO, technical artist, game designer, professor, & editor. Second, I'm unashamedly a generalist– a maker. I got & excelled in the Yahoo role because of my multi-hyphenate experience.  Sam Matthews perfectly called me a "player coach" because I lead from the trenches. I'm as game to manage schedules as churn out production art & code, data analysis, design, & user research.  Technical art, 🙌 Game designs & prototypes, 🎉 Narrative design & writing, 👍 Unity, Unreal, Blender, Excel, Adobe-- I've taught them all.  Need to enable new creators or scale a program needing buy-in, 🍰 Just need to script, shoot, and edit videos… clearly, I still do that.  I've gone 4th round on 11 unrelated roles this year – I'm not chasing a title, I'm looking to use and deepen my breadth of experience. What I can't do is pretend I'm not living the definition of insanity. I've put effort into 500 job apps, & 1000 more copypasta. 400 lunchers. $XX thousand on conferences. I'm developing a video game to deepen & prove my career options from XR into gaming.  And I did that just as an EBITDA-fueled layoffs bomb went off in that industry no less destructive than the metaverse bomb was to VR. I'm not demanding a FAANG salary. I just don't want to take all of the experience I have out of these industries I love & into the first random NYC staffing agency to support my family.   Help me help you. #jobseeker #JobSearch #lfw

Boston Dynamics "Spot" Robot Dog was $75,000 when it first came out - now Unitree Robotics version is just $1600 and it can do a triple backflip and walk on its front legs while being beaten by sticks... I'm not entirely sure what the use case is for an acrobatic dog, but I think it's clear where this is going...

A university professor posed a challenge to his students. Each of them had a balloon with their name. The balloons would fall from the ceiling and they would have 5 minutes to find theirs. If everyone found the one with their name, they won... if not, they lost. Although they tried with all their energy to find them, no one succeeded. The teacher put the balloons back and told them, "When you catch a balloon, give it to its owner". The test took less than 3 minutes to complete. The teacher finished by saying, "Happiness is like these balloons. If each of us looks only for our own, we will never find it. But if we look for others', we will also find ours." Exactly the same happens with teamwork in companies. If you help others achieve their goals, others will do the same with you. Do you like my content? Let’s discuss on how we can grow your startup/project: https://lnkd.in/dYwMNUME #leadership #happiness #experiment #ppc #seo #startup #business #marketing #contentmarketing #content #balloons #linkedin #leadgeneration

A tech company adding AI to its product... ___ Pleading guilty: June.so/ai 😅

HIRING: Hey 👋 Yahoo is looking for a freelance motion graphic designer/animator for a quick turn project starting immediately. Please DM for details and share your motion design/animation reel in the body of your message. Thanks.