Odyssey is a growing platform where young people can actually share their stories. The thing I love about Odyssey is it's not specifically a platform for journalism only. Odyssey, according to their website, has over 14,000 content creators, over 1,000 communities, and 30 million monthly users. For a company that started only two years ago, it's amazing to see what it has become today.

The best part about Odyssey is that you don't have to be a journalism major, or even like journalism. Most content creators, like me, have a passion for writing. Odyssey allows us to write about our interests and share them with our peers, friends, family, and the world.

These are some of the Odyssey positions you can hold in your local Odyssey community:

Content creators:

Content creators are the fuel that helps keep the fire alive at Odyssey. Content creators are to write one article a week, and then they are responsible for getting their shares out! Their hard work doesn't go without notice either; each writer could get $20 at the end of the week for receiving the most shares. The people Odyssey usually look for to be content creators are writers, social media influencers, community leaders, and people who are just creative in general!

While photography used to be a separate category altogether, we're also looking for photographers as content creators. Aspiring photographers can share their work through photoblogs with short descriptions. Videographers are also encouraged to join and share their vlogs through Odyssey and build a following along the way.

Contributing editors:

The contributing editor is the editor-in-chief's right hand; they work with the EIC and content creators every week to help improve their team by helping edit articles for the EIC, sharing ideas and feedback with content creators, and update spreadsheets and other data weekly for the EIC.

Social media directors:

The social media is in charge of helping the team get more shares and views on their articles every week. They will post the articles on different social sites, thus increasing page views and shares. Also, the SMD will send a few articles from their community to the assistant managing director in New York, which will be sent to Odyssey with the chance of being published on Odyssey's social media pages!

If you haven't thought about joining Odyssey yet, maybe now's the time. Odyssey is growing bigger and bigger every day; right now is the time to get involved with this amazing platform! Apply here today to be a part of your local community!