UPDATE (12/18/2017): *I have discovered that I had not completely read all of the details for this position. I mistakenly applied the time period in which a person can apply as the end of the voting period. You can still vote every 24 hours until Sunday, December 24th at 11:59pm. I would appreciate your continued support. Thank you.*
This is going to be a short post. I saw an ad on one of my Facebook friends timeline. It wa s a position for a CEO which stands for Cancun Experience Officer. Neat huh? The position would require an individual or team to live in Cancun for 6 months. They would eat at different restaurants, stay in different hotels and participate in activities in and around Cancun. This cannot be real! Oh wait here is the kicker. You will be paid $10,000 a month! Now that is really unbelievable. I looked it up. Went to their website. Checked out the requirements. It seemed legit.
Now the next step was creating a 60 second video saying why I was the best person for the CEO. I had an idea as to what I would bring to the position. My issue was saying it in 60 seconds. I mean I started a blog because I talk so much. Lol. Now you want to confine me to 60 seconds. Wrote some things down, recorded it. Yea…longer than 60 seconds. Then I had an epiphany. You can have a team. Now the pay stays the same no matter who is on your team, but I only needed one other person. My teammate is my mom. Hell I have been on almost all my trips with her so why not have her experience this with me. She agreed to be a part of team. We were going to shoot the video together when I was there for Thanksgiving but we were so busy with the Prayer and Praise event that we never got to it.
My 60 second pitch actually turned out to be 53 seconds. I cut out a few things from my original speech and tried my best to sum up why we would be the best choice. I think I did a good job but only time will tell. I do truly believe we would be a great choice. Even though we cannot highlight Cancun as a family vacation spot, we can show families with older kids and adults the best places and activities. My pitch actually included something that I don’t like to share with most people, my limitations. I have been traveling more recently and it is imperative to know the resources that are available for people with physical limitations. Especially if you are traveling alone. I don’t want my limitations to hold me back from living a full life. If I know that the places I choose to visit has ways to accommodate me, I’m there. When I was in Cancun in July I was impressed with how people treated me. Since that trip I have changed my diet drastically. I was vegan for a small time but scaled back to vegetarian because I do not want to give up seafood for the rest of my life. This is another advantage for my team. To travel around Cancun and show meals that will accommodate vegans and vegetarian and also put a spotlight on handicap accessible hotels, restaurant and activities, win-win.
Now my mom may be older but she loves trying new things and living her best life. On a mission trip, she ziplined in Nicaragua. I haven’t even done that though I want to. The advantage that she adds to the team is that she doesn’t have physical or dietary limitations. She would be the person to do all the activities that I may not be able to. She would also eat the meals that I couldn’t due to it containing meats I don’t eat or dairy. We as a team can give so many different perspectives of Cancun, I don’t know why they wouldn’t pick us. I, of course, could not say all these things in a 60 second video though. And even though I said this was going to be a short post, it’s not looking like that anymore. Lol.
Now that I have submitted my video, I just need votes. I am not sure how big of a role the votes play in them narrowing down the pool to 100 people/teams but it never hurts. A person can vote every 24 hours from the last time that they submitted a vote. Voting is open until 11:59pm Sunday, December 17th. So I am just asking for your support. Here is the link where you can vote, https://ceo.cancun.com/profile/ebony-sims. I will be sure to update this post to let you know if my team is part of the top 100. Thank you for your support.