Like RiRi Says: "Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, Work!"
On my way to work in the mornings I contemplate what my day will consist of, what kind of tone it will set for the next, among other things. I find myself spending a lot of time thinking of how I got to where I am and how I tell my story. So for the summer I applied to a local car dealership expecting to work in sales and got offered something much deeper than that. By the end of the interview, I was being told that this company would do everything in their power to try and find me a place to help out with marketing and sales work. I had not yet realized that Grappone Automotive Group gave me an incredible opportunity and this summer has challenged my professional growth and given me skills that I may not have learned elsewhere doing the traditional retail or ice cream scooping summer position.
Since then, I have been shadowing in various departments and filling in where I am needed. I spent time working on spreadsheets and sorting through information for a local health center as a pitch in hopes that they send their business our way versus the dealership down the road from them by helping them further their green initiatives. After that I went through negotiation free sales training, working in the Guest Experience Center (GEC), and then as a Guest Experience Manager (GEM) at the Ford/Mazda Dealership, and I am currently working in the marketing department alongside our digital marketing guy, Josh. Yesterday I worked on Facebook ad campaigns for Ford and Mazda and then started ended the day with writing a blog post about Mustangs on behalf of the company blog (very cool stuff, even for a Camaro fan). I'm not quite sure what I am doing next week, but I know it involves helping the marketing department, so I am happy as a clam.