Biggest Lesson of 2024 (so far)

Good morning, my champ!

It's midweek again.

While you might be preparing for different things, I over here. I have ended the week.

So before I go I decided to give you guys a story

So I had a marketing internship at Jesaih that ended sometime in January. I started the internship in September and I have had the opportunity to look back on the lessons from those five months.

One of them was an eye-opening lesson and that lesson doubles as my BIG lesson in the last 5 months of the year.

I will tell you the lesson pretty soon, but first lemme give you a brief background story as to how the whole thing came to play.

So back in September, I got into a marketing internship role in a company abroad.

It was a clean get-in.

I saw an opportunity, reached out to the CEO & Founder, fixed an interview and got the job at the

Sweet right?

Well not really.

Cos firstly, I didn't apply for any active or official role.

I just came with a proposal, killed it, negotiated my working hours and viola.

Two days later, I was onboarded into the Slack channel.

And boy did I learn a lot in those 4 months!

But you know the biggest lesson I learnt thus so far?

It came at the end of the internship.

I remember having a meeting with the HR while we discussed my input thus far.

I was told the Company would have loved me to stay for some more months but they needed to cut cost.

And since I was the only intern without a specific role, I was the only one that was dispensable.

To me, I thought I was doing a lot by learning from every department that was in the agency.

To them, I was basically doing something that someone was already doing before

And it didn't matter if I did it better, what mattered was that I didn’t consistently stick to a role throughout my stay in the firm.

It was a hard lesson for me.

One that I welcomed with open heart.

Because now I know that next time, if (and that’s a big IF) I decide to do anything in a marketing agency again, I’ll have to make sure I have a specific role I occupy

Be sure to not deviate from it.

And no matter how exciting working across field looks, I’m never going out of my way for anyone.

Dahsit.

Dahsol.

Now — to you — Champ.

What big lesson have you learnt in this first 5 months of the year?

Shoot me a reply and lemme know.

Your boy.

PeeJay From AIESEC in Enugu

PS….

That is by the way sha, hope you've had a productive week so far? The goals you set for yourself wouldn't be achieved by another hope you know?

That's why I like to take Wednesdays as review days, pick a time of the day you feel most relaxed and review your actions and decisions this week.

It might feel a little pressuring but that's why you have me here, to gist and to guide. I'm sure you can do this too!

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