How Jane came to life

Hi, I am Nikoletta (so, not Jane… I’ll get to that)! As I write these lines I am 31 years old, and I’ve decided to start a blog about surviving corporate life as a “normal” or “average” person.

Let me explain you what I mean with worlds like normal or average. If you tick just a bit like me, your first instinct will be thinking that being an average person is actually offensive. I can’t blame you, can I? I am a millennial after all, and man… do we hate being average. But the truth is: I went to school, graduated, studied, graduated, looked for a job (quite long to be fair), got a job at 23, and I work ever since. My life is not instagram worthy, neither are the pictures I take. So if people with inspiring life stories and beautiful pictures are special, that makes me… normal, I guess.

But here we are, normal people, going through life, juggling friendship, love, expectations, applications and everything in between.

Entering corporate life brought me challenges I had to tackle. Coming from a working class family (and there is nothing wrong with that) there was no one I can ask about how to operate in the context of an international company. So I started browsing social media, I looked for blogs , YouTube channels, that could give me some kind of guidance.

And that’s the moment I realised the internet is full of motivational speakers, millennial making money with business models I don’t even understand, influencers, vegans, fashion addicts, brains. But where the hack are normal people? The ones I can relate to. Those that are actually happy to have life that isn’t instagrammable every single moment. People with flaws? Am I the only PLAIN JANE here?

Eh voila, I said it. Am I in comparison a plain Jane? Not really. No one is a plain Jane. We all have something unique about us that matters. So while I am not considering myself plain, I am happy to be one of many Janes out there finding her way through life, being a JANE AT WORK.

Enjoy this blog and join the Jane community!