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Hi, my name is Tim. I work in the Labs about half of the time.

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I'm actually not in the Labs though. I'm helping writers out with projects that they need to work on designing and building those.

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But the other half is a lot of process development, reading ISO documentation until my eyes bleed.

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I've been working here since July of 2022.

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I think my favorite part of working here is the variety because it kind of feels like I'm

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working at Skunkworks. There's a lot of stuff that's on the go and there's also a lot of freedom

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to do the weird stuff that nobody else would be able to. If I want to do a project in this

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direction and I can see a clear path, I don't necessarily have to defend it.

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I can just go ahead and do it and get it done and it's so cool.

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The worst part about working at LMG is probably the interdepartmental politicking,

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trying to navigate the fact that I am in a new department that needs to integrate with

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departments that have existed the entire time the company has and trying to find our place here

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and trying to find my place in that department. That's been kind of tough, scatterbrained.

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But in a very weird way, Linus has a weird on-off switch where he is off-camera, very focused,

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very driven, get things done, get them done quickly. When he's on camera, it's like he perks up and

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everything gets ramped to 12 and it just becomes very, very fast-paced. Let's get this done,

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but in a much more fun way. Linus is exceptionally lucky.

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He is very successful and a lot of that is to do with the hard work that he's put into it,

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but he also hit it big. He's very lucky. It's still a job.

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We do a lot of really cool things and we do a lot of very top shelf tech things. We had to have hands-on

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experiences with stuff that potentially nobody else will and that's really cool. But at the end

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of the day, it's still a 9 to 5, 30 sort of, I have to make this happen by the end of the week

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or it's not going to happen and there's a lot of pressure associated with it, especially with

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embargo videos. We have a lot of people that come after a video and are like, why couldn't

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you test this? Why couldn't you test this? Those are totally valid and I understand them,

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but we couldn't because we had time constraints and it's still a job and I still have to go

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home at the end of the day. It's not staying here until midnight every night because I enjoy it

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unless it's something I really, really want to, but that's tough.

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Can we relocate to Calgary? Is that an option? The number one thing I would change about the

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company is I would change our workday from 7 to 3.30 or 7 to 4. I think that would be a big

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net positive improvement for me, but I also recognize that that's not something that everybody

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else is going to want. I started working at Linus Media Group because Gary phoned me and asked me

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when I could start working and I was like, sorry, who's this? And we went from there.

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I had sent in an application from the first, this is going to change the future of the channel

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video about Labs back in December of 2021. I think that came out and I hadn't heard anything

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for months and months and then in May of 2022, Gary called me and he's like, hey,

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I've got your application. I'm wondering if you want to come work for us. I'm like, who's this?

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And we had basically, it felt like not an interview, but more just a discussion about

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when I could start working more than anything. And then we had a second call about how it would

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work with some of the personal situation I had to navigate around school and moving to Vancouver.

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And yeah, I started like a month later. It was really neat actually. I think I made Gary anxious.

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He asked me specifically, if you had A plus B and they equaled C, would you say anything?

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That was, that was the substance of the question. Not even, not even, there were things there,

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but he said A plus B equals C. And I'm like, are they supposed to equal D? And he,

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he just kind of stammered and stuttered and was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that, yeah. And I'm like,

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I guess if they're supposed to equal D, then I would probably speak up about them equaling C,

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but also maybe they're supposed to be processes that indicate that C is an optimal answer. And so I

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would be advised to not say anything. I don't know. He's like, that's what I was looking for.

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Okay, cool. And I think he probably gave me the job out of anxiety, because if I was him, I would.

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The last place I worked was an engineering procurement construction company or EPC.

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And it was a massive multinational mega conglomerate. And this doesn't even like begin to compare. So

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working from a place that has tens of thousands of employees to a place that has just over 100,

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I think, like this is startup vibes compared to that with, I know the owner of the company

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and have like spent time working with the owner of the company. That's nuts. That's not even comparable.

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There have been a call put out on teams for a bunch of props, essentially, for the backpack

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shoot for LTTstore.com. And I had brought a bunch of D&D equipment and miniatures and Dyson stuff

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and left them in the bedroom set so that they could shoot that. And they did that day. And so at

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the end of the day, I went back to the bedroom set to go grab my stuff so I could go home. And

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the door was closed and the lights were off. And I opened the set and Linus is standing there

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pulling up swim trunks. He's basically buck-ass naked. And I'm standing there, never met him before,

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never seen him in person, slack jaw, just like, uh, he's like, can I help you? As he's pulling up his

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swim trunks. I'm like, hi, I'm Tim. I'm from the Labs. I need to get behind you. And he's like, oh,

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okay. And so we did this weird kind of funky dance in the bedroom set. So I could go get my

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stuff. He's basically standing there. He's never seen me before. He doesn't know me from Adam.

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And we're just like, kind of staring at each other. And it's all weird. And we start to have a

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conversation. He's like, oh, you're one of Gary's group. That makes sense. And then he just leaves.

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He goes to his swimsuit shoot. And I'm just standing there like, what just happened? Am I about to

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get fired? Don't write your cover letter using chat GPT. Yeah, I'm currently going through

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applications for hiring for folks right now with a bunch of positions that we have for the lab.

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And I have, I have at least, at least one that I know of for sure, and a bunch of other ones that

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I can see have markers. And I haven't sent any of them through any, any chat GPT check programs,

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but I'm sure that I would find a few. If you really want to work here, write a letter that

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indicates why you want to work here, right? If it's something that you would be passionate about

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and you feel that you would be the best fit for, explain that in your own words. I don't want to,

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I don't want to hear a bot's version of it. I want to, I want to hear it from you. At the end of the

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day, we, we're still just human, right? Like we're creating content and you're consuming that content.

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And we're hoping that you're enjoying it because we're putting, we're putting our best foot forward.

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But we, we're also trying our best, right? And so there's, there's going to be a level of, of

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making mistakes and learning from those mistakes. And I think if I could say anything to our viewers,

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I would hope that they understand that, you know, I, I read their comments and what they,

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what they say, I take to heart. And so if they can put forward constructive criticism,

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then I really appreciate that because it allows me to learn things and get better at my job and

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make things in the future that they'll want to watch and things that they'll enjoy.

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I've never actually seen Gary do any work. Maybe that's why he's not getting paid yet,

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but like, he's got like stacks of coloring books that are finished. So like, I don't know.