Shane Jacobson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Even if we're doing well or not well at it, we get to say we work in entertainment.
That's pretty cool.
My wife gets to say she's a lawyer.
Someone else might be a teacher, a doctor, a surgeon, a single mum.
And everyone goes, gosh, how are you doing it?
All that kind of stuff.
But when you go, I work for a toilet company.
It's just never going to go well for you.
You instantly become the butt of their joke.
Oh, well, I better not shake your hand.
You'll take shit from anyone.
And the jokes start.
So their life, the second they unveil what they do for a living, they become a joke.
instantly to a stranger.
So I watched them working and dealing with what people said and using their suit, their sense of humour as a suit of armour.
And it's what my uncles did.
And these were hardworking people.
blue-collar workers, using humour and deflecting it and making everyone feel happy while people are having a go at them.
And I think that's genius.
So when I saw that, I said to my brother, I have seen these guys that are exactly like our uncles.