By Asia Hoe

When I first joined 15 minutes media as an employee in July, I was excited about all the new opportunities and responsibilities I would be granted as an official member of the team. Most recently, I was thrilled, flattered, proud, and admittedly surprised when I was entrusted with as crucial a role as the project manager for an upcoming project. Amanda smiled, reminding me that this was one of the benefits of working with a small company. Indeed, one of many!

In spite of my excitement, those positive emotions were also tainted by the notion that I hadn’t done this before. Or, at least initially, I didn’t think so. After thinking it over, however, I realized that project management is something we do essentially everyday. With every responsibility, task, or objective we take on in life, we plan, organize, meet deadlines, assess risks, and manage assets towards the successful completion of one of life’s many little projects. This was even more evident to me in looking back on my (increasingly distant) college experience, where my professors or supervisors gave me one deadline for a paper or group project with the expectation that I or we would figure out all the details in between. Success often required me to be a very disciplined, organized, and detail oriented individual. What’s so different?

Naturally, most people are probably better at managing certain aspects of their lives and careers over others, and I am certainly no exception. Still, I move forward with confidence because I am passionate about this opportunity, and the vision behind our client’s endeavor. I can’t share much information about the project now, but I trust it will be a very engaging and exciting process adding this new skill to my repertoire. I hope you will join me along the journey in my first blog series detailing my first experiences as a project manager!