What It's Like to Make TikToks for a Living | Career Crush

Описание: 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨    / hbrascend   ✨

I can watch TikToks for hours. I’ve even made a few. But what is it like to make them for a living?


00:00 I want to make TikToks for a living
00:40 Meet Dave Jorgenson
02:00 How do you keep this up everyday?
02:39 Does the editor-in-chief approve the TikToks?
03:49 A different path for comedy
04:26 Learning production in college
06:21 "Creative Video Producer"
07:19 Pitching TikTok to The Washington Post
08:00 TikTok hasn't gotten old yet
09:00 Turning your job into something you want

Dave Jorgenson, the “Washington Post TikTok Guy,” shares his journey from interning at The Colbert Report, to making YouTube videos, to becoming the newspaper-hat-wearing TikToker. He chats with Ascend editor Kelsey Alpaio about his creativity process, how he turned his job into one he loves, and how he helped the Washington Post’s TikTok reach almost one million followers.

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Produced by Eliza Laycock, Andy Robinson, and Kelsey Alpaio
Video by Andy Robinson, Kelsey Alpaio, and Eliza Laycock
Editing by Eliza Laycock
Animation and Design by Riko Cribbs and Karen Player

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