Simon Amor - How to get a creative job, stop procrastinating and other useful tips.

Simon Amor works in the idustry as a Designer, alongside people in other creative fields. He works for a company that collects data such as cookies for websites, to allow the websites to better suggest things to you. His team has access to most areas of the company He stated that there are lots of types of designers and that he doesn't see himself as a designer, but rather a problem solver.
He gave some advice about doing well in the industry:

• You need to set yourself a goal; decide what it is you want to do, and then start to narrow down what that is further. 
• Need a portfolio. Fill it with relevant work for the job you want. Around 6 pieces of work, including the process of creating it, not just the final result.
• Never work for free. The second you do, it devalues your work, unless you are doing it as work experience.
• Moving somewhere for work is an investment of both money and time.
• Better to call or arrive in person to try to find work experience, as they don't have time to answer every email.
• Start doing work/Looking for work now.
• It's fine if your idea doen't pay off as long as you work hard to show the process you followed before deciding it wasn't going to work.
• Have multiple projects going at once so that you can switch to the other one if works start slowing on the current one.
• Side projects should be fun.
• He works on a problem until it's fixed rather than come back later.
• Learn to code on some level.
• Networking is helpful but not always necessary.