Hey!
I’m Megan Schaefer – I love dogs, I put parmesan cheese on pretty much everything, and admit to being a chronic abuser of the rocketship emoji. I’m a 23-year-old living in the Midwest and working at a creative services firm where I never do the same thing two days in a row. I’m a Class of 2017 grad of the University of Illinois – I studied English, with a double minor in Linguistics and Informatics.
I spend my four years of college working in a map library, which is exactly as obscure as it sounds, while running a debate team, running a debate league, and singing in a university choir. Add my coursework and two honors programs on top of that, and life got pretty busy – but my sophomore year, I lived with Morgan. She’s been putting up with me since middle school, and the year before, she’d started a blog, and insisted I do the same. So on Halloween night, we sat on the questionably-clean floor of our dorm room and she walked me through setting up hosting and choosing my first WordPress theme.
Starting a blog turned out to be one of my better decisions. The skills I’ve built here got me an internship that summer, which turned into a longer internship the next summer, which turned into a part-time remote position during my senior year and a full-time position when I graduated. Now I use the practical side of my blogging skills (like content writing, SEO, and social media marketing) to help a whole slew of clients – everyone from nuns to medical marijuana distributors to fine-dining restaurants.
Sometimes it feels like I’m stumbling through life with my eyes closed and my hands out, and tripping over good opportunities entirely by accident. Being a college student, recent grad, or a millennial in general is kind of terrifying. And sometimes it feels like you’re in it alone.
But hey. Here we are, on the internet, connecting in spite of it all. Your life might not be like mine in the book-devouring, blog-writing, weird-job way. But if you feel like there’s more you can be and do, if you can just find the time and strategies to improve, well – we’re not so different after all.
