I had just discovered instagram in 2014, and of course I had the incredible idea to use is as a sales medium for my job at that time. For you that might not know me, I am passionate about (new) digital tools, ideas and anything that can help in improving the project I am working in.

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A very short story about Instagram; It resembles to @steepshot ( 🙂 ) first launched in 2010, had a little bit less than 200 million users in 2014, it now belongs to Facebook (of course it does) and it proudly has more than 600 millions active monthly users

Going back to our story, I of course wanted to create an Instagram account for the business I was working. I asked for permission, was granted permission and then I created the account.
(Bear with me here, I was found myself in undiscovered territories)

I created the account and I couldn't help it sharing my enthusiasm with my boss.

• "Look", I said! "People liked our photo, people interact with us, great isn’t it? This will mean greater brand awareness and will result to greater sales = profit!"
  Can you guess the answer I received?
• “Ok” said my boss. “But please, deal with Instagram during your spare time”

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That was one of the times I really felt devastated, like something had just broken my heart a little bit.

It was the time I started to realize that no matter how hard I worked and how much I tried and how much I was seeing his business as my own, to him, it did not matter.

A job is not only something you do for a living. A job should be inspiring, educating (in any way) and of course rewarding so that you can keep doing it!

The above and a number of different factors that came along, are what inspired me to leave that job and search for alternative ways to make a living (and enjoying making it!)

The end of story? No, The beginning of MY story

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