When I was 13, I remember that as a hobby on a holiday vacation that i visited my older brother in Monterrey, I started to use Adobe Flash to create cartoon animations.
We had to stay during the mornings at his house, until his family was free so that we can go out. Therefore, I started to spent some time in his Mac learning about keyframes and how Flash worked.
While studying my business bachelor degree, I started to do some side courses in Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Photography, Social Media and Online Marketing. My mother always pushed me to keep learning things as a side. One never knows when that knowledge would be used.
After my graduation I came back to the family business, which is a furniture store. At that time I just created some posts for Facebook and push them with Facebook Ads. As well in that time I was into learning about blogging and how to make money online, therefore I got more into the WordPress world.
Then, while I was studying my master in Germany, I had to find a job since my savings account was obviously decreasing, therefore I started a search in the university job portal and I found a student job at a company that was actually in the same city where I lived, and they were looking for someone with experience with WordPress, Social Media and basic knowledge of Digital Marketing.
At that moment I thought, this is just perfect for me! I have all of those skills, plus the company is international so so I could have a better chance since my german level was very low.
I didn’t hesitate to write my cover letter stating that I have done some courses in social media, that I knew the basics of Adobe Creative Cloud, and I have worked with WordPress thanks to my blog. I also stated that my german was not really good, but I hoped that with time it could be better.
Couple days after I received an e-mail that my documents were going to be checked. Then I got a call from my former boss, she was talking in German, and I barely understand what she said, but I did understand that it was about setting up an interview, which I only answered to yes, please, send me the information by email. xD
I didn’t knew that much about ARP and Bechtle, until I started to research even more. I got an intervew at the main headquarters in Neckarsulm to one of the biggest IT companies from Europe. :O That day I dressed pretty formal, as used in Mexico, but then I noticed I could have been a bit too formal when I saw my former bosses.
As in many interviews the background questions were not missing. But what caught more the attention of them was that I have worked on developing my blog and how big was my current email listing, which at that moment I had around 20 subscribers.
Since my profile was for a student job, and I did fulfill the profile of a content creator, I received an offer and started to work at ARP Europe on March 2017. Who would have known that all my side hustles in digital marketing would have give me an opportunity to land in a dream job.