- It's really nerve-wracking.
My honest thoughts and feelings about me leaving Facebook.
♪ Woke up at 11:00 ♪
♪ I ain't got no job ♪
♪ What the hell should I do today ♪
Hi, everybody, I quit my design job at Facebook,
after only working there for three months,
and this video is a vlog about my last day
as a designer at Facebook.
If you're new here, I'm Christine,
and I'm a UX/Product designer working in San Francisco,
and as someone who doesn't have
a traditional design or tech background,
I share my experience and knowledge
here on YouTube and Instagram
to help people break into the industry.
This is gonna be a two-part series video,
the second video will cover more of the details
of why I left Facebook in such a short period of time,
and I'll also be sharing some of the pros and cons
of working at a big company like Facebook
that you should consider before you say you wanna work
at Facebook or any of the FAANG companies.
And if you wanna know what I'm doing next for my career,
watch 'til the very end.
In 10 minutes, I'll be telling my manager
that I am quitting.
I haven't been able to sleep for the past three days or so,
I've been talking to so many different people,
trying to figure out if this is the right decision,
because my gut is telling me it is,
even though it's so scary.
Oh, my heart is beating so fast.
Today is my last day of Facebook.
I have so much to do
before my computer shuts off at 5:00 PM.
Oh my gosh
I forgot to do the dishes yesterday.
♪ My dirty dishes ♪
All right, let's get this place in order.
(upbeat music)
♪ These days I'm getting no sleep ♪
♪ Gonna drink my coffee ♪
This is my breakfast, 'cause I was craving some hot soup.
(sighs)
Since it's my last day, I wanna look a little bit nice,
been obsessed with this recently, feels so good on my skin.
Cover up those eye bags.
How do I look?
I recently purchased these really cute earrings from SiiZU.
Aren't they so cute?
I've been resorting to online shopping
whenever I'm stressed.
Cutes, cutes
my last meeting of the day.
What? He just changed it, uhh.
♪ I need my caffeine ♪
♪ Go get my coffee ♪
(upbeat music)
- [Christine's Friend] Yes.
- It looks so bomb, (laughs)
you're so happy.
Cheers.
Yea the truffle was great.
- [Hotelier] Thank you. - [Christine] Oh,
that is a truffle mac and cheese.
- [Hotelier] (indistinct)
- [Christine] Oh wait, we didn't order-
- [Hotelier] No.
- [Christine] But we can have it!
really?
- [Christine's Friend] I don't know. (chuckles)
- [Christine] Look how cute.
- We're gonna keep this as a souvenir. (chuckles)
(string and guitar music)
- Just came back, I am so red,
I just thought it'd be a good time for me
to share my honest thoughts and feelings
about me leaving Facebook.
I was able to quit my job
because of sponsors like Skillshare,
so I wanna take this time to thank Skillshare.
Y'all know I'm super passionate about learning new skills
and expanding my creativity,
and Skillshare is a great resource for both of those things.
It's an online learning community,
and they have tons of classes
on design, creativity and productivity.
I spent the last two months in Korea
taking care of some family, personal things.
I also took a ton of Skillshare classes,
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I don't think anyone joins a company
thinking that they'll so soon,
but I just felt like it was the right time
for me to make this jump.
And I've always wanted to just try out,
maybe even just for a few months,
what it's like to be my own boss,
try to start my own business and see where it goes.
And I might go back to working for corporate,
if not now, then when?
After I told my manager,
I just felt like this weight was taken off of me,
and I just felt so good,
and that's when I knew this is the right decision,
whether or not it pans out in the end, this feels right.
And I think it really depends
on what kind of person you are, but I know myself enough,
where if my gut is telling me
that something isn't working out,
and it feels like this is not where I'm supposed to be,
I can't silence that gut feeling
that tells me like something needs to be done about this.
And then once I do it and I feel good,
I know that I made the right move for myself.
And some people are more logical than reasonable,
but I feel like I didn't make a non-calculated risk,
I felt like I made a calculated risk
which is why I felt more comfortable making this pivot
and trying to become a full-time content creator,
so we'll see where this takes me.
I think quarantine did make me reevaluate
even on a deeper level of what I actually want
versus what I think people want from me.
What I want is to try this thing out,
what I thought I should want was climbing up that ladder
in a corporate world, becoming a manager,
and maybe I'll change my mind
but right now that's not what I want,
and so I think this is true to who I am now,
and things might evolve, whether down the road,
but I'm okay with that.
Anyway, it was hard to leave the perks
of working at a place like Facebook,
the health benefits are really nice.
One thing that really stuck with me
as I was talking to a lot of people
before actually deciding to quit,
one of my mentor had said,
"Are the perks worth your unhappiness for a year?"
So I was gonna stick it out for a year,
and the answer was no, I'm not gonna remember
the paycheck that I had 10 years down the road,
but I am going to regret not trying out something
that I've always wanted to try out.
And then by the age that I'm 32 or 33,
I might be in a very different circumstance
where I have more life responsibilities
that I can't just quit my job
and try to do my own business.
So what it came down to, for me,
was the perks on the stable paycheck
aren't really worth my unhappiness and health,
'cause I was kind of burning out,
I was spending my weekends,
I was trying to meet the deadlines of my design timelines,
and I just felt like I was never taking a break,
I didn't even have time to watch
five minutes of Selling Sunset.
What you just saw was me two months ago,
and a lot of things have changed since then.
During my time in Korea,
I did a lot of personal reflection
and I came to the conclusion
that I wanted to go back to my 9-5,
I really missed designing.
By the time this video goes up,
I will have started my first day as a Product Designer,
at Instacart!(chuckles)
I know this is so anti-climactic,
I hyped it up in the beginning.
I'm going to my old job because I really missed my manager
and the people that I worked with at Instacart.
Yes, my life as a full-time YouTuber was very short-lived.
So at the time that I quit Facebook,
I genuinely believed
that I didn't wanna be a designer anymore.
But I think what happened was
I was just burned out from working too much,
I was burned out from tech,
and I just needed a break for my love for design
to come back to the surface.
As a full-time content creator,
your life can be really lonely,
and I contemplated whether this was the lifestyle I wanted.
You have to be doing everything by yourself,
and you're always on the grind.
I have so much respect for full-time content creators
because it is a grind,
people don't talk about it often
but you always have to be grinding.
I'm still going to create content
but I'm going to try to manage my time better
so that I don't burn out.
My goal this year is to pump out one video every week,
so hopefully I can keep that promise.
While I was working at Facebook,
I wasn't able to publicly mention that I worked at Facebook
because Facebook has this policy where you can't mention
that you are an employee of Facebook
and say all these things
because now you're representing the company.
So now that I don't work at Facebook,
I'll be able to create more videos
around my interview experience at Facebook
and things that I know some of you will find valuable.
Also make sure to hit that subscribe button
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so that you can get notified when the second video is up.
In the meantime, watch these two videos
to see what I was up to while I was in Korea,
and I'll see you guys in my next video.
Bye.