Okay so I will start first 😅
I don't even know how to explain this properly but I will try.
So I got my first job as a performance marketer last week. First day I reached office 15 minutes early. Sat near the door waiting for someone to tell me what to do. Nobody told me anything for like 20 minutes. I was just smiling at everyone who passed by.
Then my manager called me and said "first week mein you will just be meeting everyone and understanding the team." I thought okay easy. But bhai - the team is BIG. There is one person handling Google Ads, one for Meta Ads, one for SEO, someone for Referral marketing, email marketing, and god knows what else. Every meeting I was just nodding and saying "haan haan, got it got it" but inside I was like - yeh sab ek saath hota hai ek company mein??
Third day they gave me access to the marketing dashboard. Excel jaise dikhta tha but was some tool I never saw before (maybe built in house). My job was to just update the numbers. Leads, conversions, CAC - I had heard these words in my MBA classes but seeing actual numbers of an actual company felt very different. My hands were slightly shaking while entering data. What if I mess up some formula and whole company's report goes wrong 💀
Also I published my first blog on WordPress that week. In college I thought publishing means writing. But no, you have to add meta title, meta description, featured image, internal links, check mobile preview... it took me 2 hours for ONE blog. My senior saw me struggling and said "arre it gets faster." I smiled but I didn't believe her.
Then they told me to create some emails - like actual emails to be sent to leads. I wrote the first draft and used the word "Dear Sir/Ma'am" at the top. My senior very politely told me that's not how marketing emails work 😭 I wanted to disappear.
And last, the weekly standup. First time in my life I had to speak in front of 5-6 people about "what I did this week." I had practiced in my room the night before. Still fumbled 3 sentences. But nobody laughed. They just moved on to the next person. That was actually a relief.
Honestly first week was overwhelming but also felt like - yaar yeh sab real hai ab. No more assignments. No more viva. This is actual work.
Now you tell - what was YOUR first week like?
Doesn't matter if you're in performance, content, SEO, social - drop your story below. Especially want to hear from people who also had no idea what they were doing 😂