Her Story
About Morgan
My day job is in FinTech where I've been for about three and a half years, and I also run my own photography and branding company which I've been doing for about two years. The two businesses interplay with each other - working heavily in the corporate sector gives me perspective when working in an artistic field, and there's a lot of overlap bringing my artistic expertise to the corporate sector as well as bringing that corporate knowledge to my business in the creative field. They definitely overlap with surprisingly interchangeable skills. I would say my main area of expertise right now is client insights and branding for any sector - finding client motivation. My typical days involve going to work in the office where I interview a couple of clients, working on projects we're facilitating, communicating with different interdepartmental people, and then on the weekends I usually have a couple of shoots lined up or brand new meetings. As far as my company is concerned, every fiscal goal that I've set, I've surpassed - it's only been in business for 2 years but we've already seen doubles in revenue. I was also interviewed by Fanboy Nation as a local professional, which is a local publication that a lot of the arts community sees, so that was nice to be recognized in the local community.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Morgan
01What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
It just feels kind of unsettled. Because every industry is having a bunch of layoffs, it's hard to feel like, even if you are succeeding in what you're doing, that you've actually succeeded. It's like, okay, that's cool, I felt like that, but now I still have to worry about what's next. I think that definitely adds some amount of exhaustion. There's never an 'okay, yeah, we did it' - it's just like, alright, on to the next thing. It's kind of hard to feel proud of yourself, or feel like you've done enough, regardless of how much you've actually done. I'm definitely more of a sprinter - I like to get to the goal and be like, aha, goal achieved, great, let me find something else. But now it's very like the goals move. The goalpost for most forms of success has been moving, so it does make that kind of difficult. As a woman in this kind of field, when you have a good job and your own business and your own apartment, most men my age don't find that attractive, they find that threatening. That makes settling very hard - I don't want to go backwards. It tends to be a little overwhelming because you want to grow your business and you want promotions at your day job, but you only have so much energy to do that in. How to keep that sustainable is really something that's been very trial and error for me. For a long time in my late 20s I was very like, well, I just have to prove it, I just have to prove that I can do it. And I've proved it, but I'm still running at top speed. Why? It's not sustainable. It's kind of hard because nothing is wrong - I love my day job, I love my business, I like that they're both going very well. But that requires a lot of me. I want them both to succeed and I want to keep moving up in both places, but how to do that sustainably has definitely been a question that I have been asking myself.
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