My name is Sarah Butt. I'm a designer here and occasional host and I've been here for about
three years. When I initially saw this question I was like there's so many things to consider
but overall aside from the YouTube stuff I just love the type of work that I get to do like I
work on such a huge variety of different projects anywhere from doing a side panel design for like
a creator video or an illustrating an ABC book or designing packaging for a screwdriver. There's
so many different amazing incredible opportunities and projects that I get to do that I am so excited
to come to work every day and take on. Good question. I've had lots of different jobs. I
worked at a stable and worked with like miniature horses. I was a softball umpire. I worked at a
design firm downtown Vancouver so I did have prior design experience. I was a hostess at a
restaurant. I worked at a thrift store like so many different things I suppose.
Yes I have a two-year diploma in graphic design and then I said screw this I want to work so
the worst part or maybe the most challenging part of working at Creator Warehouse slash LMG would be
there's a lot of tight deadlines and a lot of really big projects so right now I'm taking on
and tackling the entire brand identity and signage for LTX which is like obviously a huge challenge
super tight deadline we want to get it done before obviously the date of the event and I'm doing it
by myself so maybe yeah the most challenging part is we've got some pretty big projects that
are being taken on by smaller teams and I think that's something that maybe everybody experiences
here are you used to having that like level of responsibility or is this kind of like yes and
no I really do love the challenge um but it exists so yeah yeah exactly if I don't get this done
I'm letting down so many people so there are definitely positives and negatives to working
with Linus generally he has a super good spirit about everything that we're doing and he obviously
cares a lot about all of the projects that we're working on too when it comes down to like
making sure packaging is eco-friendly and making sure that our clothing and all of the other
products that we're putting out are super good quality for our fans he really really does care
but with that said he's super stubborn so say I've designed something that I really love
and I think it would make a super cool product if he doesn't like it it will not see the light
of day it's like game over that project is scrapped let's try something else so yes he's stubborn but
also awesome I think branding is a really good example so the Mac Address branding I had done
a few initial iterations that I absolutely loved me and Horst and the rest of the Mac Address team
at the time also enjoyed the branding and thought it was super suitable for the channel
but Linus didn't like it and so instead of trying to convince him which we still kind of
tried to do it was just a matter of then going back and I think I did six or seven new identities
before we finally decided on something so yeah I guess that's an example of him being stubborn
LMG and Cruder Warehouse have both changed tremendously I mean for starters I'm sure a lot
of other people have said this but we have grown like extensively when I started I think I was
number 40 of all of the people I guess who have been hired before me but for Cruder Warehouse
I was number three and I think I've lost track of how many people we have now it's probably about
15 to 20 people so aside from that obviously also we went from all being in one building
to now being split between three so that is a great example of how much we have grown and
changed and then we've also added channels we've added new companies like Labs like there's so
much that has changed I definitely miss like being in a building with everybody
I love seeing everybody's faces and saying good morning and all those kind of things and now I'm
kind of upstairs in another building with the customer support team which is great
but they work from home a lot of the time so I'm kind of lonely but aside from that it's not too
bad like I don't know if I would want to go back because the amount of the amount of opportunities
that has been given after we moved into this building has also expanded I think maybe there's
an assumption that like working for a youtube company is going to be this otherworldly experience
like we're running around as if we're doing Channel Super Fun stuff all the time but in
reality you know we have people who come by and take pictures in front of the building be like
holy s*** this is Linus Media Group but they don't realize on the inside we're just a bunch of people
sitting at desks doing a day-to-day job that yeah it's it's still work it's still a job and it's
normal it's surprisingly normal how did I get you three years goes by really quickly honestly
um I don't know I think I'm a rare case of not really knowing about the channel before starting
um I saw the job posting on Indeed and I was like oh this seems cool like I'm kind of into tech
I'd love to learn more about it and so I applied did my interviews and then in the first interview
Nick asked you know anything about PCs and I said no I have no f***ing clue uh but I told him
if I am invited back for a second interview I will name every single component in a PC
and sure enough I sat down at my laptop every day and studied every single component in a PC
and what it does and so I came back did that second interview and sure enough I got the job
so yeah I have the perfect answer for this more dinosaurs I think LMG needs more dinosaurs
you know it'd be awesome if we could get one of those like life-size replicas that are like
fiberglass or resin or something I'm sure we can make a video idea out of it like building a PC
and a dinosaur something stupid like that you know it'd be sick if it was built with all old
pieces so it would be like the dinosaur PC it's made with dinosaur parts
oh my gosh we need that have you ever seen um Nathan Merveld's house he was I don't know some guy
from Microsoft but he actually has this huge like glass front in front of his house and he has a
giant t-rex like fossil giant t-rex skeleton I want that here we need something like that
the gold controlling yeah exactly I think the best way I could describe LMG is chaotic good
so in a sense there's a lot of work to be done there are a lot of tight deadlines you kind of
come in not really knowing what to expect but at the end of the day all of us come in we get it done
with the best attitude I'd say even if times are tough and we're kind of struggling with getting
stuff done on time or like doing it to the best of our abilities but then the work that's completed
has such like a a rewarding feel to it like for us personally for the company and then also for
all of the people that are watching our channel I remember when I first started and I didn't
really know a lot about the company I hadn't really watched or indulged any of our videos
or anything and Nick came upstairs and he said if you do not want to see Linus in his underwear
do not go downstairs and I just remember being like this is my life now
and then yeah aside from like in office stuff I guess just I went to PAX last year and having
people come up and be like hey Sarah is just such a weird feeling but also it's a very great feeling
because you kind of feel like you have been given this platform to inspire people and so yeah I just
tried not to take that for granted your top 10 toaster reviewer yes and Pantone stuff I guess
color expert to add that to my job title