Marina Shifrin, a video editor and writer, quit her job in fantastic fashion, recorded a video of herself at 4 a.m. of her quitting her job at Next Media Animation.
Shifrin made the video “An Interpretive Dance For My Boss Set To Kanye West’s Gone” before it went viral. Next Media makes odd and funny videos about current events.
“I work for an awesome company that makes news videos. I have put my entire life into this job, but my boss only cares about quantity, how fast we write and how many views each video gets,” she wrote on YouTube.
She added: “I believe it’s more important to focus on the quality of the content. When you learn to improve this, the views will come. Here is a little video I made explaining my feelings.”
A University of Missouri-Columbia, she wrote on Sept. 29 that “for the past 6 years I’ve been a writer trapped in journalist’s body. I went to the big name journalism school and got the straight As. Upon graduation I said to myself, ‘Self, you need to get rid of your Freshman 15, you’re three years out of Freshman year and it is not becoming on you. Also, do you want to be a journalist or a writer?’”
She added that she wasn’t happy with making deadlines instead of “art,” as her boss told her.
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