The best things that ever happened to me in life were happy accidents. When I was 14 I realized I didn’t have any hobbies, so I took up English because I had a kind teacher at school. Later I decided I don’t want to follow my parents’ steps and study law, or go for management because everyone else did. This is how my hobby grew into the university program I chose – English and Literature. During my third year of studies, I stumbled into teaching and fell in love with it. Meeting wonderful people, learning their stories, sharing what I knew about English, and helping make their dreams come true – sounds like a dream job, doesn’t it?
But I don’t feel I earned it. Of course, I worked hard developing lesson plans and reflecting on what works and what doesn’t, but I somehow didn’t feel that I made those choices deliberately.
There was a voice inside my head, and it’s still there, asking me “Are you sure you’ve found the career that matches your skills and ambitions best?” I don’t have the answer.
I am ready to try out as many opportunities as possible. It’s a real challenge since no one wants to hire a person with zero experience and let them learn everything on the fly. In Canada, I managed to get some experience in a retail chain store and ticked sales off my opportunities list. Sales make sense to me when my job is to explain why my product is different and how it will solve the client’s problem. I don’t want to push anyone into buying what they don’t need. I don’t believe that this is the way to build a long-lasting deep relationship.
I know that I need to sell myself as a professional. That’s exactly what I tried to do yesterday during an interview. The guy said “I am impressed with how prepared you are”, sounds promising, yet I’m not sure if that is a good sign.
Today I’m having another interview. The position is different; the salary must be a bit better, while the level of stress is much higher. This job is a revolving door, so yes, there is the communication component I’m looking for, but it’s just scratching the surface. I also spent some time doing my research, trying to dive into the industry, and I didn’t find a solid structure inside of it, nothing insightful or meaningful.
Don’t count your job offers before they hatch! Nothing has been offered to me yet, and I’m comparing the options like I have so many on my plate.
I do gravitate towards content creation, so last week I started two online courses: the first is “The Strategy of Content Marketing” and the second is about writing and editing. I can’t wait to absorb all the information I now have access to and put it to practice!
Maybe one day I’ll find a job which will let me create content in English. And this will be a different story.
