Today Flurry Friday is about a great group of young men who came to our shop for a job shadow. Eight guys from four local high schools spent the morning with us and we showed them basically every aspect of our work around here, from art and code to making a video. We laughed, we cried, we consumed a LOT of sugar. One of the really neat things was a hash tag we started, #somajobshadow (see below for all the messages that came through), where our tribe was asked to share whatever single piece of wisdom they thought was important for a young man ready to jump into the world – the results were awesome. Honestly, we expected a half dozen quick lines but instead folks came all out of the woodwork and laid some serious pearls out there. Thank you to everybody who participated in that and thanks to the gentlemen who spent your morning with us – we hope we’ll see each of you again with crazy-mad game skillz.
John, Thanks. It was a real surprise but a lesson learned well as we fully leaned into the opportunity. We heard from many of the students that we were the only shop they could find in the Portland area that was willing to offer an experience like this. We plan to make this a quarterly event too!
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love this idea! great job guys!
John, Thanks. It was a real surprise but a lesson learned well as we fully leaned into the opportunity. We heard from many of the students that we were the only shop they could find in the Portland area that was willing to offer an experience like this. We plan to make this a quarterly event too!