hi i'm rai a few months ago i was working 60+ hrs/week for $100/month in the philippines all while studying molecular bio and biotech i was a world science scholar. i really thought i'd end up spending my life in a lab but my grandfather got extremely sick with cancer, my dad lost his job, and my family was struggling to make ends meet i'd go to school from 7 am to 4 pm, get home and work til 2 am, then get my ass up ready for school again somewhere in between all that i found out about clipping i watched some random tutorial and my first thought was "holy shit this is free money" i did not make any money for 2 weeks 😂 got suspended, had posts taken down, fucked up multiple times. but i was getting so deep into learning the space and realizing how much bigger organic distribution was going to get i still wasn't making anything, but by then i wanted to see how far i could take it so i quit my actual job and went all in within days, i became a top clipper for a few campaigns and hit my first max payouts i still remember my first $300 payout and realizing i'd just made 3 months of my old salary from a single clip that took me 3 minutes to make like what do you even do with that information after working til 2 am every night for $100 a month one of my clips got featured in a case study by @alexxgrowth because it was doing better than the actual streamer's page 😂 he then took a leap of faith in me and got me started with operations at @contentrewards mostly writing campaign briefs and organizing notion pages, since i had experience with that and i just kept getting more involved suddenly i was running campaigns for big streamers, talking to creators every day, building the community, and learning how to get millions of people to actually pay attention to something in my first few months, i helped grow our ugc campaign from 300k to 100m views i've talked to probably tens of thousands of creators and clippers now. i used to be the one joining campaigns and trying to figure everything out, so being on this side of it still feels a little crazy i get to see how a multimillion-dollar company operates from the inside. how we plan campaigns, work with talent, figure out what's working, and deal with things when they don't go how we expected marketing, operations, community, working with people. things i barely knew anything about a few months ago are now things people trust me to handle i don't think the girl watching clipping tutorials while studying for her exam tmrrw would've believed any of this 😭 all the little things everyone wants a little fairy to do is probably how i'd describe my job and i love being the little fairy there's something new we do every day and i always want to be involved. honestly such a perfect environment because it is never complacent and stagnant. i was definitely biting off more than i could chew, but i wanted to learn every nook and cranny of this industry. every time i figured something out, i wanted to understand the next thing i didn't know i'd end up caring this much about the work or the people i've since left my molecular biology and biotechnology degree and gone fully all in and because of this job, i've been able to get my grandpa the care he needs and fully support my family so yeah i really do think i have one of the coolest jobs in the world and now i want to start documenting it here 😁