I first got the taste of digital marketing as an Account Executive for an advertising agency that specialized in experiential, digital, and social media. Before I made the shift to agency life, I was surviving in a corporate sales position at a Fortune 500 company with dreams of one day working in marketing.

While dreaming about the perfect position, I was also taking action. I researched, networked, volunteered, and interned for different brands on off days until my hard work paid off. I treated building my marketing career as an actual part-time job to get to where I wanted to go. I knew that if I wanted to to be taken seriously, I needed to land on the type of marketing work I wanted to do and plan the perfect exit strategy.