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so he's taking us there,

which is awesome,

so that's what

we are going to do.

Here we are, Week 26,

the halfway point

of One Week Job,

in Montreal working

with Cossette Communications,

so it will be really interesting

to get an inside look

of the ad process

and how it goes from conception

into production.

Welcome aboard.

Thanks for having me.

No problem.

We sell frickin' ideas!

The analogy...

it's like if we are the clothes

of what the corporation wears.

We have one foot in a board room

with product managers,

marketing vice-presidents

who have a very high

fiscal responsibility volume,

and then the other part

of your day...

is with creative guys.

And, uh, there goes my Venus.

Venus and Mars...

The job you're working on,

the big idea is

"une vraie biere de serge."

It's real beer for real guys.

So here we are

at the production house.

We are going to be showing

the client

the first off-line edit

of the 30-second commercial

shot for Molson

a couple of days ago.

It was pretty cool

to see how, you know,

the team comes together

and everybody has their inputs

and everybody

has different ideas,

and actually,

that was something

that I found interesting

in that what made sense

to this one person

doesn't make sense

to another person.

So the challenge

becomes the best possible way

to get your message out

to your target audience.

Being in the situation

where I'm able to try out

a different job each week,

it gives me

a really unique perspective.

Each week I ask my co-workers

what they like most

about their job.

The number one answer I hear

is the people they work with.

The advertising agency

is an industry where everybody

becomes your friend.

It's maybe a clich,

but it's true.

People are my colleagues

and my friends also.

Their work satisfaction

comes from their co-workers

and their friendships

and their relationships

they develop by being there.

I can totally relate to that

because I realize

that whether I have

the best job for the week

or the worst job,

it's the people that

make the experience special.

It's the people that

make the experience special.

Just on our way

to an interview this morning.

It's intense

because it's going

I guess live

across all of America.

So, morning show on Fox news.

Sean Aiken is a creator

of oneweekjob.com.

Have you come close

even defining

what your passion really is?

I'm getting closer.

Boom! Hello, USA! USA!

After the US media started

covering the story,

I started getting emails

from Americans

with different one week job

offers throughout the States,

and I thought

it would be really cool

to see what the American

job market was really like.

Like, who knows?

Who knows what awaits?

Here I am, Week 29,

I'm in Atlanta, Georgia

at the Atlanta

Conference center.

I'm going to be a trade show

salesman this week.

I'm working with a company

called Fundamental Designs.

They have designed this plastic

squeeze bottle

called the FIFO bottle.

The first two people

that started coming up,

I kind of see them

make eye contact with me

and that kind of expectant look

that...

"Okay, you're kind of going to

have to inform me

what this product's all about."

It gets down to an attitude

towards the whole thing.

If you feel that the glass

is half empty type of person,

frankly, not a good idea

to be going down the road

of an entrepreneur,

but if you think

"Yup, I know I'll be able

to make it in one way

or another,"

When you do fail, you realize,

"Okay, that hurt,

let's not do that twice,"

and then go out

with a lot more confidence

to then try it again,

make it successful,

and that's pretty important.

This week is Week 30.

I'm working with a T-shirt

company

just outside of Atlanta

called Snorg Tees.

When we started it out, I guess

I was the driving force

behind getting

the business going.

Um, the first few months,

like, we put the site up

and we thought

we were going to run a few ads,

and stuff was going to start

flying off the shelves... no.

Against the advice of others,

I decided to add more shirts

and spend more money,

and things turned around

abut three or four months in

and we became profitable.

Well, that's quacktastic!

When you come in

and you look at a business

and you see "Oh,

this is how things work,"

and it just seems like

it flows smoothly,

like, it didn't

start that way.

We're raised

in the school system

to work for someone else,

so when you work for yourself,

you are kind of, like,

"Well, where is my paycheck?"

It gives you a kick in the butt.

You've got to be creative

or think of some way

that you're going

to make sure you do.

And then you say high-five!

Week 31, I'm here

at the Georgia aquarium.

It's the world's

largest aquarium.

I'll be helping out

at different exhibits,

so answering questions

about the animals,

helping out visitors

with directions,

information stuff.

I love my job.

Every day is a good day

when I get to see fish,

and I see fish every day.

That's a really big fish!

The real message that

we trying to convey with this

is that you look at a globe

and you see

all these little oceans,

but they're actually

all connected,

and as humans we think of

"That's the Atlantic Ocean,"

or "That's the Pacific Ocean,"

or "That's the Indian Ocean,"

well, they're named that way

for reference,

but they're all connected.

When you're first

getting out of school,

follow your heart,

follow your passion,

don't go for the money,

you know,

unless money is your passion.

But for those that go directly

for the highest paying job,

it's probably high-paying

because it is not a lot of fun.

Here I am right now

in the aquarium.

As you can see,

Sean Aiken is behind me.

He is talking to this producer

at CNN.

Good Morning America

called the other day,

which is also exciting,

No idea what's going to happen

next little bit,

but interesting

to check it out.

All right, thanks a lot, Sheila.

Talk to you soon. Bye bye.

Yes, it's awesome

like CNN, Good Morning America,

it's like wow, it's awesome,

but I look at it

just another opportunity

to get some more jobs,

get some more

interesting opportunities

and also another way

to share that information

and share the experience

I'm having with others.

When lan had been in Atlanta,

I asked him to come home,

When lan had been in Atlanta,

I asked him to come home,

and there was no disaster,

catastrophe,

no definitive reason

why he needed to be home

right then,

but we had never been apart

for more than three weeks.

Lan left today to go back

to Vancouver

to spend some time with Karen,

a couple weeks,

he's going to meet up with me

in New York two weeks from now.

I'm staying here

at the Hyatt Regency tonight.

The Georgia Aquarium put me up

'cause I have an interview

tomorrow morning at CNN.

I'm going to go from Hyatt

to homeless,

because I don't know

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