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It's a little bit different for me than it might be for most, but I think that just shows that no matter what you're doing you can get where you want to be. For six years I was an executive for the Boy Scouts of America. The skills that I developed there by working in a community to promote the scouting program, to raise funds, to organize events all translated into what I do now. So I did a job that gave me a well rounded set of skills and then I brought them into what I was most interested in.
I think coming from a liberal arts background gives me an edge every time I go into a business because I've learned something about the world. I have a different perspective on things, yet I understand a little bit about the specific things that each kind of business does. If you're working with a chemical manufacturing firm you understand a little bit about chemistry. If you're working with a company that manufactures truck parts maybe you understand a little bit about distribution systems. If you're working with a company that makes soap, hey, I use that.
I got an undergraduate degree in political science and history, so a liberal arts degree, but I was always interested in business. When I started working on my MBA in night school that's when the whole world of business started opening up and I thought, "This is very interesting."
I was lucky enough to find a job that, like I said, let me go around and visit every kind of business you can imagine and learn about it. So I developed some skills in the non-profit world. I brought them into the for-profit world and at each step of the way I was just following what seemed to interest me the most. If you do what you're interested in, always with a goal to turn it into something, then I think you'll always give your best and you'll always end up with what's best.
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