My FIVE YEAR Workiversary

Today marks my FIVE YEAR workiversary! 🤯

As I think back on my five years, I'm thinking of my first day on the job. I was fresh out of school, had zero work experience, and was sooo nervous! I feared I would fall on my face and that I wouldn't make it. I thought I might be incapable of working! I was good at school but how likely would I be able to survive in the real world? Somehow I managed to rise to the occasion :)

It's funny now because it's all come naturally to me but there are things I’ve learned these past five years that I wish I could have told the anxious, naive, 21 year old me at the start:

  • Enjoy every moment, because it goes by far too fast. ❤️

  • Embrace every new learning experience. Read the books. Study the courses. Watch the tutorials... Just wait until you see what you can do! ✨

  • Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young... Show ‘em what you really can do! 💪🏻

  • It’s not the norm for people to spend time outside of work with their employers. 🤷🏻‍♀️ You are just one of the lucky few. And the moments spent with them will be some of the best of your life! Enjoy every road trip, game night, and family dinner. (Can I just say, wow, people are really missing out! The Bretts are the best!)

  • Learn from every moment. Because really, you are learning from the greatest, most knowledgeable, most talented people you will ever encounter in the business world and music industry. Truly. 👏🏻

Before graduating college, I was told that I would fail and that I couldn't make it in the music industry. And let's face it. I look like I'm 12. I'm very aware. People don't believe that I'm running a business, sometimes try to tell me how to do my job, or just think that I'm incompetent.

When I go home or talking to friends, people ask about my life and I tell them about my adventures and realize that my whole life is spent with my employers. But wow, they have blessed my life. We have jammed at concerts together, we have had many late night game and movie nights, we have shared Thanksgivings, we have celebrated many birthdays, we've traveled across the country together. I could never grow tired of being with them 24/7!

No one knows how to successfully run a business, writes the most incredible songs off the cuff, is capable of incorporating laughter and love into the work environment as this family.

It's been a crazy, wonderful five years. I could not ask for better. My expectations have been exceeded 100x over. My confidence has increased. I do still wonder sometimes why they would trust little ol' me with their company but I'm grateful that they do! And I sometimes find myself doing something that I never imagined I would be capable of and I chuckle to myself because, I'm doing it! I didn't fall on my face. I didn't fail. I was capable all along. I just needed someone to take the chance on me, to see me, and to believe in me, so that I too could believe in myself.

Yeah, I’m grateful. That’s an understatement.

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