Chasing Your Dream Job
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have you ever
been awake at night thinking about
something that makes you
feel excited have these thoughts
kept you awake for hours since i was a
kid i’ve been thinking about
one thing only before we reach that
point i want to give you a little bit of
context
being six or seven years old and a boy
in mexico means that you’re playing
soccer
why because parents want their kids to
play sports and soccer is the most
important sport
in mexico this made me start playing
soccer at a very young age and i
absolutely loved it i had a childhood
where i used to watch more soccer than
disney channel and this led me to have
almost no toys but only soccer shirts
when i was 10 years old i went to a
friend’s house and we started playing
fifa
if you know fifa is this video game
where you’re playing soccer
and let me tell you that i’m terrible at
fifa
we started playing a tournament with
some other friends i lost the first
match and that caused me to get
eliminated from the tournament
so i decided to start commentating when
they were playing
out of nowhere my 10 year old mind
realized that there are people that
talk comment and analyze about sports
and tv
i thought what this is crazy this is
definitely what i want to do when i grow
up
i have loved watching sports shows since
then
the days with no school i used to watch
sports shows from 8 a.m to 4 p.m
i love watching a show called la jughada
broadcasted on televisa
but the problem was that the show
premiered sundays at 10 pm
so i couldn’t watch it so i would wake
for summer vacations
and on sundays i would stay up late and
watch the show
it was in these moments where i knew i
wanted to become a host
of a sports tv show
i finished confirming this in what i
like to call the best day of my life
it was june 17 2018 and mexico played
against germany in the world cup
i had the opportunity to go to russia
with my family to watch the game
hours before that match the atmosphere
was unbelievable
my sister got interviewed by mexican
outdoor organized and everything was
going perfect
mexico won the match and i couldn’t
believe what i was living
at that moment i realized that i want to
go to every world cup
that happens until the day i die i want
to transmit passion lead
in great moments less than six months
before this i thought
what else can i do to be more prepared
to achieve my dream job
so i thought maybe i should learn a
third language and i decided to learn
german
and do an exchange for one year in
germany i’ve always thought german
would be a big benefit because maybe
someday someone is looking for someone
to go to germany to cover a story or
follow a player and i will be ready if
that opportunity comes
in the middle of my change year living
in germany i decided to start preparing
myself so i started watching
interviews of people that work on the
sports shows in mexico
to know how they achieve to be where
they are professionally today
one key aspect that i noticed was that
most of them were working before turning
i thought okay i just turned 17
i should start doing something so i
started writing soccer articles
the thing was the idea knew how good the
articles were because the only people
reading them were my friends
they both said the articles were pretty
good but it was obvious that i was in a
print love situation
that moment was when i realized that i
should have a website where i could
publish some articles
and decided to open it with an instagram
account
six months after i returned to mexico i
opened up the instagram account and the
website
with the help of my best friend i
started my own brand ss deportes and i
absolutely
love it today i want to tell you what
has happened in the last 18 months since
i launched the website and instagram
account
how this has changed my life and how
this has helped me to get closer and
achieving my dream job
there have been six steps that i have
found during these 18 months that have
been crucial during my personal
experience
the first one is believe that you can
accomplish your goals
before starting the most important thing
is for you to believe in yourself and
keep on believing
even though it’s not always easy at the
beginning
people started making fun of me since i
didn’t have many followers or likes
but i didn’t care and continue working
hard because i knew that by working hard
i would get those followers or likes i
have to say
the amount of followers or likes isn’t
that relevant but what actually
mattered to me was that more people saw
and read what i was posting
a crucial moment moment for me to
believe in myself was when i heard
sergio dipp say
si tu no chris that translates to
if you don’t believe in yourself then no
one’s gonna believe in you
after watching his ted talk i realize
how important it is to believe in
yourself
it’s so true if you believe in yourself
then why would other people believe in
you
the second step is start working before
others and work more
if it’s in your possibilities to start
working or practicing what you want to
do someday as a profession
start now so you have more experience
than others that want to achieve the
same thing as you
that will always lead you to be better
for when the opportunity comes
miguel angel riseno a friend of mine
that works at espn
deportes told me the path will be really
hard
full of difficulties but the moment that
you accomplish your goals
it will be all worth it
the third step is make a plan
and execute when you work you have to
start
making a plan and put expectations on
yourself so you can see if you’re really
having improvements or not
when i started i thought it would be a
great thing to finish a year with 750
followers on instagram
but it made me really happy and i was
surprised to see that i finished a week
year
with 3 500 followers
five months later i achieved five
thousand followers on instagram
as i stated before the number of
followers isn’t that relevant
what is actually relevant is that more
than five thousand people trust me on
telling them
what’s happening in the sports world and
that makes me really happy
the fourth step is be consistent
being consistent is the most important
thing in my opinion consistency is
everything there are many athletes that
have the time to become professionals
but they are inconsistent
and they don’t have a determination
needed so they don’t become
professionals
in my personal experience there have
been huge rewards because of being
consistent
the first one is that i have gone more
followers and people are getting
interested in what i post
and the second one is that every time i
do a video
or write an article i get better at it
remember consistency is extremely
important no matter what you want to
accomplish
the fifth step is look for ways of
innovation and other learning sources
no matter what you want to do it’s
crucial that you keep innovating because
innovation makes your final product
better
in my case i do it all the time when i’m
talking about sports
effects on my videos but also with what
i’m learning
i try to learn a little bit more of
sports where i’m not an expert on
and also learn new things like german i
like
reaching out to people that do what i
want to do and hear their own story
the sixth and my favorite step is be
prepared when the opportunity comes
watching more than 50 interviews of
different people that work on the sports
journalism industry in mexico
the common denominator tends to say that
if you’re working hard
you will have the opportunity but the
most important thing is that you’re
doing
everything to be ready for when that
opportunity comes because
if you’re not preparing yourself then
how are you going to compete with others
that have been preparing for years
in the last 18 months i’ve seen
something i didn’t expect to happen
people have started to believe in me
that i can accomplish my dream job
it is incredible to see people
congratulating you for your hard work
and for trying to reach that dream job
even though they know it will be really
hard
at the end of the day i love what i’m
doing
love ss deportes loves sports love
journalism so why wouldn’t i try it has
become a huge part of my life
by following these six steps i have my
dream job is getting closer and even
closer every day
so why not yours get into action
believe in yourself work hard innovate
be consistent start to do what start to
work on what you want to accomplish
because you have to be ready to grab
that opportunity with both hands
the journey is long and it may seem a
long path from here
but each step makes you closer and
remember
be ready when the opportunity comes