 Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, my name is Megan. I used to make teaching videos and now I just kind of make life content and this video is actually all centered around kind of why I stopped making teaching videos and how I got my current job. I've had a couple people ask how I got into this job so I wanted to share that with you guys today and I'm super excited to share that experience because I think it's kind of unique and I think it's worked out for the best. So let's go ahead and get right into it. Okay so let's kind of rewind a little bit kind of to the beginning of how this all started. I went to school to be a teacher. I wanted to be a teacher since I was in sixth grade and it is really odd that that's not where my career path has led me thus far. So towards the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year before I got my my job as a tutor I had already been substitute teaching for a year and it went good relatively and so I ended up not really finding a position for the 2018-2019 school year and I was kind of I kind of didn't want to substitute teach again. It was really stressful and I just I think I wanted something else like more long-term in a school rather than jumping around to a different school every single day. So I ended up applying for this tutoring slash like reading specialist I guess kind of teacher and I ended up getting it which was super exciting. That experience was really good but something else that happened towards the beginning of the year is I had applied for a long-term subposition. I really really thought I was going to get it and I kind of think in my mind this was like the catalyst for everything and I didn't end up getting it and I was really upset about it and it just kind of started this feeling of like maybe this isn't for me and you know I thought at first it was just like oh I didn't get this job and I'm bombed and I'm feeling sorry for myself but this feeling actually lasted throughout the entire year and there became more and more things that I noticed that I just didn't really love about teaching. So I decided towards the end of the school year in 2019 I was like okay I want to try something else out. I feel comfortable enough because I have my teaching license for another few years so if things didn't work out I would be fine. I'm living at home so I can take a risk and try something else out. So I ended up applying to a local amusement park actually called Valley Fair and I used to work there. It was my first job after graduating high school and I worked as a ride operator. While it wasn't the best job in the world that I've ever had it was fun and so I saw that they had an HR position open and I decided to apply for it. I ended up getting the job and I spent the entire summer learning about the HR world. It wasn't super in depth. I was an assistant so I did get to do other little random jobs and things like that but it was a really cool and fun experience and I still got to be around the amusement park and you know go on some of the rides and things like that so it was a really cool experience. So towards the end of that time like when we were kind of coming up on the next school year I'd say probably beginning middle of August I ended up getting contacted by a contracting company called Kelly Services via indeed.com and they were like hey we have this HR job with a client or whatever they called it and would you be interested in going through the application process? So of course I was like okay like this really could be my opportunity to go try this do it through the contracting company for a couple months. If I don't like it I can then go back to substitute teaching. So that was kind of the main thing is like I knew I had that that thing to fall back on. That plan be if things didn't work out in the HR world and so I was really grateful for that because I don't think if like I already had a teaching job or if I didn't have that thing to fall back on I would have been a little more nervous to try something new so I'm really grateful that I did have that to fall back on if things didn't work out. So I went through the application process and then they said I had an interview super excited so I went to go interview and after the interview on my drive home I got a call from the contracting company lady that I was working with and she said I got the job so I was super excited and then a week later on September 9th of 2019 I started this job it was so weird and out of my element I was sitting in a desk all day I had a direct manager who was like watching everything that I did and because I was a contractor and didn't have a full-time position it was like I had to make sure I was on my game and doing a good job every single day. If you haven't heard from like previous videos if I haven't explained very well basically I answer phones every day. I usually aim for like 30 phone calls a day. The employees so managers employees managers managers whatever they contact us with questions that they have so if they have a leap of absence or if they have like a timekeeping issue or I don't know whatever so many other things we help them answer those questions or we get them to the right place and so I take about 30 calls in an 8-hour day. The other thing that I do on days that maybe I'm not taking calls because we have like different sections of our job so they're they also opened a chat feature so basically the same concept someone chats in and they say I didn't receive my paycheck today and then I check the information and I chat back to them and we figure out what the issue is so that's kind of my main job. I started then full-time on January 6th of 2020 and I've been in that job ever since then but yeah that's kind of how I got into my current position I've been working there for nine months so it's been a fun ride and I'm really glad I got those opportunities so we'll see where things continue to go what my dream job develops into and I hope you guys enjoyed and yeah I'll catch you guys next time. Bye guys!