Often we don’t have to reinvent the wheel to learn something new – we can just ask experts in the field who can draw on their experience to enlighten us. Below, we’ve shared insights insiders from various industries have shared with us.

Lena Jefferson | RN-Educator/Mentor

There a number of myths about the nursing profession. One of the biggest misconceptions about nurses is our job only consist of “simply take doctors’ orders”. All registered nurses have earned a college degree and maintain a professional license. As a registered nurse, our work is not supervised by a physician. As licensed professionals, nurses and physicians work in tandem to develop individualized care plans for our patients. Physicians rely on information nurses obtain during patient interactions to write the “doctor’s orders” nurses use to provide patient care. Read more>>

Danni Ma | Filmmaker & cinematographer

For the film industry, the one thing that shocked me the most when I was still an outsider was the long working hours. The standard film industry takes 10 hours a day and the most of production I was involved with are usually 12 hours or even more. When I was a production assistant in a commercial production company in China, we call 16 hours a day. Even in America, over 12 hours is not unusual in the film industry. Read more>>

Michael Alvear-Pozo | Cosplayer and Influencer

Cosplaying even though it looks to be dressing up like it’s Halloween every month takes a lot of time and effort to do. Darth maul from Star Wars is one of my popular cosplays but takes me up to 5 hours to get into as it is a lot of body paint and prepping. A lot of cosplayers also do this as their main job, they partner up with major industries such as Hot Topic, Boxlunch, etc and make content alongside their cosplays to provide entertainment to others. Read more>>