I started a company in May of this year. Not coincidentally, that’s around the last time I wrote on here as well. The company I started is Miss N Media, LLC, and my industry is social media management and web marketing. Although the endeavor itself took me by surprise, the field I chose isn’t. Because it’s perfect for me.
For as long as I can remember, I have loved technology. When I was 7, in lieu of Barbies I asked myparents for Smart Start Speller, which was this mini computer thingy that basically just quizzed me in spelling all day. This establishes two things: I was always a nerd, and I loved computers before they became a standard in every home.
When I was in high school, cell phones for teens were not as common as they are now. But I had the latest Nokia phone with EVERY changeable faceplate color you could think of, and I was texting when it was so uncommon that it was a completely FREE feature with Voicestream (now T-Mobile). My family also once caught me dragging our computer to the phone connection so that I could connect to AOL and use the chatrooms. I was grounded for it, and it was totally worth it. For me, the latest has always been the greatest.
I have also always been very social. While I’m perfectly fine with alone time and personal space, I thrive in social situations. I love meeting people and looking for common ground with anyone I come across. Or I hope to learn from people I don’t have anything in common with. I like to think of myself as a social chameleon, capable of adapting to any group of people I’m thrown into. This is a trait one should never take for granted, because it cannot be taught in classrooms.
Add to the love of technology and social personality, I am a writer. Starting at the age of about 25, I became a writer with (undiagnosed) ADD. Social media allows me to write every day and to write about such a plethora of different subjects that switching gears quickly in my mind is considered a perk rather than a fault. My current clientele challenges me to form different “voices” every time I write copy because none of them are in the same industry. Through them I learn new fields and new ways of connecting with demographics I may not have come across on my own accord.
Finally, I have been entrepreneurial for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I started several new “companies” that included but aren’t limited to: selling bookmarks, opening a “thrift” store (selling old shit I found), a promotions company, a talent agency, and even a matchmaking service. I probably wasn’t ever meant to work for someone. My history has made that pretty clear, too.
Thanks to all these factors, running a social media company allows me to be the perfect hybrid of the entrepreneur, tech, social, and writing geek I was always meant to be. It also allows me to be the control-freak and boss I was always meant to be, but I like to think of that as merely icing on the cake. (And I LOVE cake.)
Social media is old or new to you depending on the circles in which you socialize, but one thing’s for certain: it’s here to stay. And so am I.
-Miss N.
***For anyone who’s wondering… I will still become a teacher, eventually. Currently, I am grateful to be able to say that my company is doing well enough that I want to maintain focus on growing it. Once I am able to relinquish enough control (and earn enough money) to allow others to run it on my behalf, I will move on to be the educator I’m destined to be. The goal was never forgotten, just postponed.
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