What It's Like to Make TikToks for a Living | Career Crush

Harvard Business Review · Oct 15, 2026 · 14m

What It's Like to Make TikToks for a Living | Career Crush

Uploaded 07-07-21

8 Jul 2021

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I can watch TikToks for hours. I’ve even made a few. But what is it like to make them for a living?

00:00 I want to make TikToks for a living

00:40 Meet Dave Jorgenson

02:00 How do you keep this up everyday?

02:39 Does the editor-in-chief approve the TikToks?

03:49 A different path for comedy

04:26 Learning production in college

06:21 "Creative Video Producer"

07:19 Pitching TikTok to The Washington Post

08:00 TikTok hasn't gotten old…