But the grind, 80 to 100 hours a week, nonstop pressure, and the relentlessness of New York, slowly pushed him toward burnout. As he put it, “If you break it down to the hourly rate, it’s not a ton of money. And the noise of the city was starting to wear on me.”

His turning point came during a conversation with a VC partner who mentioned that MrBeast was recruiting “smart, obsessive, athletic people.” The catch: he’d have to leave New York, accept a major pay cut and move to Greenville, North Carolina. Dziedzic felt it was the right moment to take a chance. “I figured, I don’t have a family or mortgage… I saw the opportunity to learn, add value… and have autonomy,” he told the outlet.

So in early 2024, he quit JPMorgan and jumped into an entirely different world. His first major experience was helping run a huge video production involving people aged 1 to 100, a scale he said made him realise how unlike corporate finance the creator economy truly was.

The transition was not smooth at first, but Greenville grew on him. Soon, he was leading a massive project: a pop-up MrBeast theme park in Riyadh. He oversaw everything from design to negotiations, likening the hands-on nature of the work to helping his father with construction years ago. The park opened early and attracted 7,000 visitors on day one.

Now back in New York as manager of strategy and operations for MrBeast’s holdco, Dziedzic says the leap confirmed something he now strongly believes: early-career jobs should prioritise learning, autonomy and responsibility, not just money. As he put it, “Do something that’s exciting, risky… Because the further you get along in your career, the harder it will be to pivot.”