 I've just been asked on a live stream how I got my first UI UX design job. I'm going to put five minutes on the clock just so I don't beat around the bush and let you know exactly how I did it. So I actually got in kind of like a sideways way. So the way I got into my first job, which was Invoke magazine and Wired magazine in the UK, was through work experience. So this internships. So I actually studied graphic design for five years and I got a degree in graphic design, although it wasn't actually this that got my role. So I always encourage people to apply for internships. No one's going to do this for you. This is where you've actually got to look out for yourself. But I applied for an internship at British Folk magazine, and this is while while I was actually studying. So you don't need to be doing a degree like I did. It could be an online course, but you want to be studying and you want to be applying for a work experience. And this is essentially where you go and work for free or very minimal pay, but it's really just to get your foot in the door. And that's what I did, but I got two weeks originally. But when I went down to London, so I'm from Liverpool. So this is like a two hour train ride or a five hour drive. I stayed in hostels and I stayed in hotels and I spent all the money I had to basically just stay there and work. So I turned that two weeks into it was about six weeks that I stayed down there. So when I went into the building, I made a mission of mine to introduce myself to everyone in the building. I wanted to go above and beyond. So I was the first one in the door and I was the last one to leave. And I went and said hello to other people in different magazines. Luckily, they were in the same building. And then I just introduced myself and said, I'm a student. I'm really trying to get experience. And my job was to get experience in other magazines. So from there, I then went on to GQ. I went on to Ferrari magazine and I then actually did some work experience in somewhere where I went with the creative director of Vogue to get some photos retouched and I even asked the people in the photo studio and I went back there for a week. This then continued for three summers. I went back until eventually I got work experience in the job called Wired. And on my first day, when I turned up for work experience, I'd actually turned out that they had the job going. And because I was already in the door, they give it to me because I knew the guy from working previously with him in GQ when I went down for work experience. And then this wasn't because of my degree, but it was because of the work that I put in effectively for free and showing that my personality I could go above and beyond. For the company that knows hard working. I was already in the door and it's super easy for the company to hire me because I was already there. So that's why my biggest takeaway for anyone who's trying to get a job in UI UX design, it is super competitive right now. But that's OK because what you need to do is go above and beyond. And that's why I always encourage people to look out for internships. So you can find them in loads of different places. Really, they're not always going to be officially broadcast to the public. And sometimes companies just kind of make them up. So you need to go on LinkedIn, find companies that you're really interested in working for. They might have an official work experience on internship scheme. So you can always Google it or you can just find companies. You don't need to go to a major city like I did. You can find companies near you. You can send them an email. You always send like the art director, the head of UX design, the head of UI design, someone who's in charge. Explain to them that you're a student and you're really interested in getting your foot in the door. And then maybe see if they open some internships. Some of them might even be remote. You might be able to work from home and they might give you a little bit of work to do. I think it's well worth the time and effort that you put into doing this. I know it's working for free. And if you're lucky enough that you have the time to be able to do this around your other job, maybe just a few hours here and there. This actually gives you real life work that you can put into your portfolio. Nothing better than actually having like a real case with a real employer. So that's something you can do. And then when you actually go to apply for a job, they're going to ask you what experience you have. So along with your course, the online course or university degree, you might be able to show them some work experience that you've done. And then you might even be able to get a reference off them if you don't get a job from them. There's nothing expected, but that's my advice to everyone. Go above and beyond email people, phone people, put a little bit of hustle in that you need to do to get your foot in the door. And then that's kind of like a sideways way to the top, because when you're applying for a job and you don't have any really any experience, you're going in with tens, even hundreds of other people and you're not going to stand out. The way you stand out is by going above and beyond them. That's working for the actual company. It's like you're going to be actually going to be working there. You're just not getting paid. That will come later. The amount of money I've made in my career has outshone the effort that I had to put it in originally. Ten seconds left. Hope that helps. See you in the next video.