So, I found the Internship program in a small local company related to digital marketing, and I couldn’t be happier.

They called me for an Interview, and besides professional area related questions, they asked me to do some logic tests. It was odd enough. But anyway, they liked my CV since I worked for 3 years in another company before and it seemed for them that I am responsible.

I started as a marketing manager assistant and was in charge of the Russian market. The team wasn’t too big, but it was an International team: French, Italian, Spaniard, English and me, Russian. I was feeling like a part of something huge because everything for me was new. But with time, I began to figure out that in Spain, and my theory was proved in the future within other jobs, work tasks are strictly distributed.

The “work-life” balance is more important than deadlines. Also, I got familiar with the main word in Spain – “mañana”, which means “tomorrow”. Everything might be postponed for tomorrow if it is raining today, not in a proper mood, or there is a strike in the metro even though there is nothing to do with something planned. But this turned out to be a national trait, and this is beautiful on the one hand. Maybe this is the reason why Spaniards are one of the largest living nations? They know how to enjoy life and they do enjoy it.

But on the other hand, for someone who is used to work in a rush mood might look too relaxing. It was for me, but at the beginning. I always felt like this is just fun, not a real job. But I still took everything seriously. With time I started to get bored and tried to take the initiative to come up with something new. So, I became also a Customer Support representative since I was helping customers who were coming to our office by providing them the information. My initiative enabled me to extend my internship contract, and I stayed in a company for one year more.

Now I think that it was the best experience I’ve had in Barcelona, related to my professional skills and creativeness. We did there some great job and launched good marketing campaigns. One fun fact, we launched a series of video clips about Barcelona, and employees have had roles there as well. And one my former coworker from Russia, who has been living in Spain too and was planning to move to Barcelona (I didn’t know that) was searching for some useful info about Barcelona. So, she ran into these videos and found me there. It was a fun coincidence.

But everything has its Beginning and an End. In October 2017 because of the political situation the company went through tough times. Since it was a hospitality field, the situation affected the business, and the company had to lay off most of the employees and leave only 1 Intern. It wasn’t the right fit for me. But thankfully, I got my job contract and was able to change my residence from student to resident with a work permit. It’s been two beautiful years, even though then I didn’t think so before. Today I am very grateful for that opportunity and experience. If you want to see what type of digital marketing projects we were doing, go to their YouTube channel and check some videos.

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