Last night I completed by 2nd week at Shindigz, located 33 miles from my home in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

This is a wonderful opportunity to work with a company that has been around nearly 90 years that is on the cutting edge of eCommerce, and I am blessed to work as their new eCommerce Media Specialist.

We have several brands and sites and my role is to take over the majority of their social media.  This includes Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, blogs, and a few other additional Social Media platforms.

It’s been a whirlwind, fun and fantastic.

This is something that I have been preparing for without realizing it for nearly 10 years.

When I started blogging in 2003 as a sideline, I never imagined that I would be doing what I’m doing now.  Of course that was in the days of MySpace as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest were not available.

Along with my self-taught education in this field, I did spend a year working for a website development firm where I learned more about everything from website design and functionality to SEO principles and I also developed my WordPress skills during that time.

I’ve taught the principles and marketing ideas behind all of this and now I am extremely thankful to be paid to do this for a living.

I have a great boss, work with a very talented team and am putting in the extra hours to get up to speed as quickly as possible.

That being said, I am going to slow down a bit on my own website.  I’ve got an update scheduled for Sunday, but for awhile, I am devoting my time to the social media I get paid to produce.

Stayed tuned