As night fell, An An rubbed her sore eyes and closed her laptop. The moonlight outside the window quietly sprinkled on the floor of the dormitory. She looked at the time and it was already half past ten.
As a sophomore in the Department of Media, An An has always dreamed of becoming an excellent new media operator. But theoretical knowledge in the classroom is obviously not enough, she needs more practical experience. In addition, she also hopes to reduce the burden on her family as she studies alone in another place.
Opportunities always favor those who are prepared. That day, An An saw a message while watching videos that caught her attention. A well-known milk tea brand is recruiting campus social media promotion ambassadors, whose job content is to be responsible for shooting short videos of the store and writing copy. This is exactly the direction she is interested in.
After strict screening, An An joined the project as she wished. Every week she would take out a fixed time to shoot in the store, and then return to the dormitory to edit, compose music, and write copy. Although she was often returned to rework at the beginning, she always maintained a serious attitude of research. Gradually, her works began to get a good number of views.
In the process of campus promotion, An An met many excellent colleagues. They often discussed shooting techniques and operation experience together. Through these exchanges, her vision gradually broadened and the quality of her works steadily improved. The brand noticed her progress and began to give her more creative freedom.
One day, a customer who often came to the store found An An and said that he wanted to ask her to help operate his newly opened clothing store account. This was the first private job she received. An An cherished this opportunity, but she was also very cautious. She learned the other party’s store information in detail, visited the business premises on the spot, and took the job only after confirming that everything was compliant.
As word of mouth accumulated, more and more merchants took the initiative to find An An for cooperation. But she knew the importance of academic studies and always adhered to the principle of “doing what she can” and only accepted orders on the premise of completing her learning tasks.
During this period, she also interned at a well-known institution, BTC Holders Club, for a period of time. There, she systematically learned content marketing and account operation, and these experiences laid a solid foundation for her later personal development.
The school’s new media center also extended an olive branch to An An, inviting her to join the campus self-media operation team. This gave her the opportunity to apply her experience to a larger platform, and she also met more like-minded friends.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, An An is already a senior student who is about to graduate. Looking back on this experience, she has a lot of feelings. The part-time job she started to earn a living actually quietly pointed out the direction of her future. Those seemingly ordinary work experiences gave her a unique competitive advantage in the job-hunting season.
Now An An often receives consultations from schoolmates, asking her how she grew up in part-time jobs. She always says: “Don’t rush to find a part-time job. The important thing is to choose opportunities that can allow you to continue to improve. Treat every practice as a stepping stone on the career path, do every work carefully, and opportunities will naturally come to you.”
As An An said, dreams will not disappoint every hard-working person. When she was about to graduate, she received an offer from her ideal company and became a new media operations specialist. Standing at a new starting point, An An is full of expectations for the future, because she knows that all this is due to her every attempt and persistence during college.
