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a salary job as a graphic designer for a cosmetic company. I liked it, but something didn’t feel right. I wasn’t feeling fulfilled. I thought it was about money, so I started looking for a higher paying job. Luckily, I remembered I had a job offer in my junior year in college from a large telecom company. At the time I couldn’t take on a full-time job because I wanted to finish college and get my degree. I looked for the old email and asked them if there were still job openings – and there were! I got in at the right time, the beginning of their very first in-house design team. I had the opportunity to see the team grow and expand. It wasn’t long before I found ways to do the work in a couple of hours, and then counted ceiling tiles the rest of the time until 5pm hit. The job

paid great, with awesome benefits - but again, I didn’t feel fulfilled. People said I did a great job,

I won a few awards for projects I worked on, people were great to work with, but I still didn’t feel

satisfied. I often found myself in a daze, asking myself, will I be in this exact same cube 20

years from now? Is this what life’s all about? Will I grow old inside these walls? I’d studied

graphic design in college. This was what I’d hoped for, what I thought I wanted, so why was I

feeling so unfulfilled? This couldn’t be it.

And so I downloaded an app to kill time. Snapchat.

I started following these really talented people on the app. Snapchat is known for its disappearing content, and I was constantly taking screenshots and saving art that I was seeing. I felt it was a waste when they disappeared. I started researching more and more and found there were more people creating awesome art on Snapchat. I followed them and again took screenshots and saved their artwork. I had collected so many works of art, and I thought, what

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