Great Career Advice Never Grows Stale

By Mindy on March 31, 2010

Hey ThinkTalkers! To help get you through Hump Day, we pulled some of our favorite interviews from the vaults of the ThinkTalk archives. Grab some popcorn and Red Bull and kick back for some great career advice!

In this clip, sports journalist Mike Wise talks with ThinkTalk host Zack Sherwood about how he landed his first job out of college. After graduating from Fresno State University with a Bachelor's in Journalism, he snagged a sports writing job at The Sanger Herald, a 5,000 weekly newspaper. Now he's on staff at The Washington Post after 10 years of writing for the New York Times. He has has won eight Associated Press Sports awards.

Darren Arononfsky studied film at Harvard University and also received an M.F.A from the American Film Institute Conservatory. Aronofsky began to make his first feature film, Pi, which won the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Pi's success led to the creation of Requiem for a Dream, a remake of the Japanese film series "Kozure okami," The Fountain, and 2008's The Wrestler. In this clip, Aronofsky talks about the struggle to make his first film, Pi, the research that goes into his science-related films (including The Fountain) and why Rudy is his favorite movie.

F. Gary Gray sits down with ThinkTalk host Zack Sherwood for a great interview about the director's career in the film industry. Gray talks about his first film job, how he got into making music videos and his best advice for college students. While producing music videos, Gray worked with clients like Ice Cube, Queen Latifah, TLC, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Mary J. Blige, and won several awards for his projects. His first two feature films, Friday, staring Ice Cube and Chris Tucker, and Set If Off, staring Jada Pinkett Smith, were hits and established Gray as a filmmaker. He also directed A Man Apart, Be Cool, and award-winning films The Negotiator, The Italian Job and Law Abiding Citizen.

Come back tomorrow for some more great career advice!