What if building a creative career doesn't mean quitting your 9–5?
This week on Creator Juice, we sit down with Katrina Torrijos to talk about her unconventional path from studying sociology and working in food service, to juggling multiple startup jobs, creating content on the side, and eventually building a seven-year career at Adobe.
Katrina didn't have a traditional design background. Much of what she knew was self-taught, and her path into the creative industry was anything but linear. She sought out creative communities, took on internships to gain experience, worked multiple jobs at once, and eventually found her first opportunity at Adobe through a connection she'd made along the way.
Today, she balances her career at Adobe with her own creative interests—including Twitch streaming, YouTube, and building a personal brand that shows more than just her professional life.
In this episode, we talk about:
• Building a creative career without a traditional background
• How networking and creative communities can change your career
• Working multiple jobs while building your experience
• Getting your foot in the door at a major creative company
• Why you don't necessarily need to quit your 9–5 to be a creator
• Balancing a corporate career with personal creative projects
• Finding your identity outside of your job
• What Twitch actually is and why creators should pay attention
• Why authenticity matters even more when you're live
• Building a genuine online community
• Starting a Twitch stream before everything is perfect
• How Twitch creators make money
• What it's like streaming when nobody is watching
• Why community matters more than follower count
• Staying safe as a livestreamer
• Why creators need to stop researching and start making
Whether you're trying to break into the creative industry, build something alongside your full-time job, or you've spent months researching your next creative project without actually starting it, this episode is for you.
🎙 Creator Juice is the podcast where creators share the real stories behind building creative careers and turning creativity into opportunity.
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