It's technically my FIRST day!

Thanks to oDesk, and the wonder that is Skype, I actually began my new job. That's right, after leaving my position as Assistant Photo Editor just yesterday, it was quite timely that I started my new one today!

This job is quite different, and instead of sorting the photo files of others, I am managing Social Media accounts! I'm having staff meetings and conference calls, and just spent the last few hours diving into Twitter, Facebook, and anything I could find about cars. I'm feeling really special, and really fortunate to have found oDesk and this company.

"Social Media Assistant" is the second big job that I've taken through oDesk, and I wasn't even slightly sure how I managed to get an interview and do well. But it was quite a wonderful surprise!

In July, 2011, I got an "Invitation to Interview" from the owner of a social media marketing firm. After looking through the requirements I thought I'd give it a shot and take the interview. I needed a degree in Liberal Arts, experience with popular social media platforms (Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook), and a big interest in in-depth social media management. I have no degree in Liberal Arts, barely use my Facebook account, and only heard vaguely of people getting paid to Tweet and post on Facebook.

Alas, I had the greatest interview with the owner via Skype. I was so nervous up to it that I was almost sick with worry, constantly researching in order to get myself more prepared, coming up with questions and ruling out "stupid" ones. I had such a bad headache that I hung out in bed to keep myself from running to the computer to look up more stuff. But all that stress was for nothing. The owner was hilarious, we talked about dogs, Star Trek, and skipping town for paradise.

I waited patiently for weeks for her response, only to get the message that she couldn't hire me then, but that I would be first in line for the next available position. To me, having experienced that before, I thought I'd have to wait until next year sometime and tried to get comfortable being poor for a while, eating roman noodles and streaming Netflix. There wasn't a minute that went by that my husband didn't complain about not being able to GO anywhere or DO anything.

But one morning, about a week ago, I thought I'd "keep in touch" as she'd asked and inquired about some things I could research and read while waiting for a position to open up. Quite shortly afterwards she wrote me back saying she could hire me right then to take on some new accounts and to set up a meeting on Skype. We met, it went awesome (more talk about randomness) and I stayed logged in for a staff meeting an hour later.

I spose that's the end of that story! oDesk is magic!