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Chris Salomone Highlight
If you can’t put yourself out there for people to hate on it, then you can’t put yourself out there for people to love it. You just have to go for it.
About Chris
- My brother and I were the first in our family to graduate from college—my parents assumed I’d go to college, but I didn’t receive much guidance from them regarding majors, skills, or careers.
- After graduating from California State University, Fullerton, I actually worked at the university’s library for a few years.
- I decided to pursue a master’s degree in library information science, but wasn’t very passionate about it, so I started looking for other, more creative jobs.
- I left graduate school and got a job with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences doing graphic design and writing, which later turned into a marketing position.
- When I bought a house, I started designing furniture and loved it, so I took a few woodworking classes at a community college and found that I was good at it.
- Then I spent some time building furniture for commission but eventually got burnt out.
- While working on commissions, I started a YouTube channel about woodworking and design, which grew into my second job.
- When the opportunity to leave my day job presented itself, I took the risk; now I spend all my time running my YouTube channel—Foureyes Woodworking & Design—and furniture business—Foreyes Furniture.
