Jorge Fernández, IM student and Digital Marketing Manager at AESinergy
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 6:19 am
With a degree in Economics and another in Journalism, Jorge Fernández has one of the most surprising careers. From working as an editor for the newspaper ABC to being the deputy director of a bank and a hotel, to being the Community Manager for a Balkan Music Festival. All these experiences have enriched him and shaped him into the professional he is today. He tells us his story in the following interview.
At the beginning of your career, you worked for institutions like Bankia and La Caixa. How were you thinking about your career at that time?
I was finishing my economics studies, and at the time, although I already had other interests, my goal was to work in the financial sector. I was brazil mobile database attracted, among other things, by the career path—meaning you could consolidate your career—the possibility of balancing work and personal life thanks to the intensive work schedule, and a sector that was rapidly growing at the time.
I kind of knew I wanted to do more, but I never imagined the path I ended up taking.
You also graduated with a degree in journalism. Why did you choose this as your second major? What was your experience in this field like?
As I mentioned before, in the final years of my Economics degree, I already had other interests in mind, but at the same time, I was very clear that I was going to finish the degree and that I would focus on the financial sector. I started in banking before finishing my degree, thanks in part to an internship I had done a few months earlier, so I combined my final year of Economics with my job at Bankia (then Bancaja). After finishing my degree, I took a year to decide what to study. I was very clear that it would be related to the humanities. The two clearest options were Social and Cultural Anthropology and Journalism. In both, I had the advantage of access through a bridge program, that is, direct access to the second cycle. I finally decided on journalism because it gave me a better chance of finding common ground with Economics, and because I've always been an avid reader of the press and aspiring to be a writer.
My experience as a journalist has been limited. I did an internship at the Catalan branch of ABC newspaper at a time of double crisis for journalism: the economic and financial crisis and the crisis of the print newspaper with the emergence of digital versions. It wasn't a good time to pursue a career. I collaborated with various online publications related to the world of culture until I did an internship in the communications department of the La Caixa Foundation. The director offered me a place to stay, but it was 2012, a time when we were still suffering the effects of the crisis, and they didn't grant him the budget to hire a new person. Alongside the internship at La Caixa, I published a book about corruption in Spain with a touch of humor and sarcasm, along with eleven other journalists. I recommend it: Those Wonderful Years (Ed. Continta me tiene).
At the beginning of your career, you worked for institutions like Bankia and La Caixa. How were you thinking about your career at that time?
I was finishing my economics studies, and at the time, although I already had other interests, my goal was to work in the financial sector. I was brazil mobile database attracted, among other things, by the career path—meaning you could consolidate your career—the possibility of balancing work and personal life thanks to the intensive work schedule, and a sector that was rapidly growing at the time.
I kind of knew I wanted to do more, but I never imagined the path I ended up taking.
You also graduated with a degree in journalism. Why did you choose this as your second major? What was your experience in this field like?
As I mentioned before, in the final years of my Economics degree, I already had other interests in mind, but at the same time, I was very clear that I was going to finish the degree and that I would focus on the financial sector. I started in banking before finishing my degree, thanks in part to an internship I had done a few months earlier, so I combined my final year of Economics with my job at Bankia (then Bancaja). After finishing my degree, I took a year to decide what to study. I was very clear that it would be related to the humanities. The two clearest options were Social and Cultural Anthropology and Journalism. In both, I had the advantage of access through a bridge program, that is, direct access to the second cycle. I finally decided on journalism because it gave me a better chance of finding common ground with Economics, and because I've always been an avid reader of the press and aspiring to be a writer.
My experience as a journalist has been limited. I did an internship at the Catalan branch of ABC newspaper at a time of double crisis for journalism: the economic and financial crisis and the crisis of the print newspaper with the emergence of digital versions. It wasn't a good time to pursue a career. I collaborated with various online publications related to the world of culture until I did an internship in the communications department of the La Caixa Foundation. The director offered me a place to stay, but it was 2012, a time when we were still suffering the effects of the crisis, and they didn't grant him the budget to hire a new person. Alongside the internship at La Caixa, I published a book about corruption in Spain with a touch of humor and sarcasm, along with eleven other journalists. I recommend it: Those Wonderful Years (Ed. Continta me tiene).