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My name is Sarah Butt. I'm a designer here and occasional host and I've been here for about

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three years. When I initially saw this question I was like there's so many things to consider

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but overall aside from the YouTube stuff I just love the type of work that I get to do like I

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work on such a huge variety of different projects anywhere from doing a side panel design for like

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a creator video or an illustrating an ABC book or designing packaging for a screwdriver. There's

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so many different amazing incredible opportunities and projects that I get to do that I am so excited

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to come to work every day and take on. Good question. I've had lots of different jobs. I

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worked at a stable and worked with like miniature horses. I was a softball umpire. I worked at a

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design firm downtown Vancouver so I did have prior design experience. I was a hostess at a

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restaurant. I worked at a thrift store like so many different things I suppose.

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Yes I have a two-year diploma in graphic design and then I said screw this I want to work so

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the worst part or maybe the most challenging part of working at Creator Warehouse slash LMG would be

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there's a lot of tight deadlines and a lot of really big projects so right now I'm taking on

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and tackling the entire brand identity and signage for LTX which is like obviously a huge challenge

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super tight deadline we want to get it done before obviously the date of the event and I'm doing it

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by myself so maybe yeah the most challenging part is we've got some pretty big projects that

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are being taken on by smaller teams and I think that's something that maybe everybody experiences

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here are you used to having that like level of responsibility or is this kind of like yes and

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no I really do love the challenge um but it exists so yeah yeah exactly if I don't get this done

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I'm letting down so many people so there are definitely positives and negatives to working

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with Linus generally he has a super good spirit about everything that we're doing and he obviously

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cares a lot about all of the projects that we're working on too when it comes down to like

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making sure packaging is eco-friendly and making sure that our clothing and all of the other

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products that we're putting out are super good quality for our fans he really really does care

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but with that said he's super stubborn so say I've designed something that I really love

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and I think it would make a super cool product if he doesn't like it it will not see the light

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of day it's like game over that project is scrapped let's try something else so yes he's stubborn but

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also awesome I think branding is a really good example so the Mac Address branding I had done

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a few initial iterations that I absolutely loved me and Horst and the rest of the Mac Address team

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at the time also enjoyed the branding and thought it was super suitable for the channel

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but Linus didn't like it and so instead of trying to convince him which we still kind of

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tried to do it was just a matter of then going back and I think I did six or seven new identities

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before we finally decided on something so yeah I guess that's an example of him being stubborn

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LMG and Cruder Warehouse have both changed tremendously I mean for starters I'm sure a lot

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of other people have said this but we have grown like extensively when I started I think I was

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number 40 of all of the people I guess who have been hired before me but for Cruder Warehouse

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I was number three and I think I've lost track of how many people we have now it's probably about

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15 to 20 people so aside from that obviously also we went from all being in one building

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to now being split between three so that is a great example of how much we have grown and

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changed and then we've also added channels we've added new companies like Labs like there's so

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much that has changed I definitely miss like being in a building with everybody

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I love seeing everybody's faces and saying good morning and all those kind of things and now I'm

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kind of upstairs in another building with the customer support team which is great

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but they work from home a lot of the time so I'm kind of lonely but aside from that it's not too

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bad like I don't know if I would want to go back because the amount of the amount of opportunities

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that has been given after we moved into this building has also expanded I think maybe there's

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an assumption that like working for a youtube company is going to be this otherworldly experience

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like we're running around as if we're doing Channel Super Fun stuff all the time but in

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reality you know we have people who come by and take pictures in front of the building be like

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holy s*** this is Linus Media Group but they don't realize on the inside we're just a bunch of people

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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

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normal it's surprisingly normal how did I get you three years goes by really quickly honestly

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um I don't know I think I'm a rare case of not really knowing about the channel before starting

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um I saw the job posting on Indeed and I was like oh this seems cool like I'm kind of into tech

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I'd love to learn more about it and so I applied did my interviews and then in the first interview

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Nick asked you know anything about PCs and I said no I have no f***ing clue uh but I told him

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if I am invited back for a second interview I will name every single component in a PC

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and sure enough I sat down at my laptop every day and studied every single component in a PC

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and what it does and so I came back did that second interview and sure enough I got the job

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so yeah I have the perfect answer for this more dinosaurs I think LMG needs more dinosaurs

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you know it'd be awesome if we could get one of those like life-size replicas that are like

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fiberglass or resin or something I'm sure we can make a video idea out of it like building a PC

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and a dinosaur something stupid like that you know it'd be sick if it was built with all old

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pieces so it would be like the dinosaur PC it's made with dinosaur parts

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oh my gosh we need that have you ever seen um Nathan Merveld's house he was I don't know some guy

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from Microsoft but he actually has this huge like glass front in front of his house and he has a

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giant t-rex like fossil giant t-rex skeleton I want that here we need something like that

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the gold controlling yeah exactly I think the best way I could describe LMG is chaotic good

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so in a sense there's a lot of work to be done there are a lot of tight deadlines you kind of

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come in not really knowing what to expect but at the end of the day all of us come in we get it done

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with the best attitude I'd say even if times are tough and we're kind of struggling with getting

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stuff done on time or like doing it to the best of our abilities but then the work that's completed

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has such like a a rewarding feel to it like for us personally for the company and then also for

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all of the people that are watching our channel I remember when I first started and I didn't

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really know a lot about the company I hadn't really watched or indulged any of our videos

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or anything and Nick came upstairs and he said if you do not want to see Linus in his underwear

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do not go downstairs and I just remember being like this is my life now

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and then yeah aside from like in office stuff I guess just I went to PAX last year and having

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people come up and be like hey Sarah is just such a weird feeling but also it's a very great feeling

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because you kind of feel like you have been given this platform to inspire people and so yeah I just

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tried not to take that for granted your top 10 toaster reviewer yes and Pantone stuff I guess

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color expert to add that to my job title