All Work and All Play With Career Coach Rashida Jones

Hi I'm Rashida Jones

and I'm at Wired where it's all work

and all play.

I am co-writing Toy Story Four

with my writing partner Will McCormack.

I just wrapped on a new TV show

called Angie Tribeca for TBS

which comes our in the fall.

Will and I have a TV production company

which just finished a pilot for ABC.

A family drama called Nick's.

My dad gives really good advice

but he told me to pick two things to pursue.

Just get really good at those things

and know everything you can

about those two things.

Feel lucky that you're able

to do something that you love

because that is a huge gift.

I live and work for those moments

when you have an idea

that doesn't feel like it's yours

or it belongs to you.

You just happen to be there

and it came to you.

And you happen to be available to that idea

and then everybody else thinks you're talented

or great because that idea came to you

and not them.

But it doesn't ever really feel like mine.

It's just nice to know

that I'm awake to get that idea.

Those are the moments I work for.

If I weren't doing the jobs

that I'm doing now,

I don't know,

there's a lot of things I'd like to do.

I would like to be a novelist.

I'd like to work for NGO.

I would like to do something in nature.

I kind of have a strange fantasy

about being a park ranger.

Just (laughs) being amongst the animals.

Wired take one.

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