At the beginning of my senior year of college, I became pretty fed up with my major and the business school. If I hadn’t been only seven classes short of graduation, I would have changed majors and studied something a little more touchy-feely.
It wasn’t a big surprise to most people that knew me that I got a job in the hospitality/tourism industry straight out of school. I loved what I did and hated leaving it, but Washington, DC beckoned.
After a job misstep, I landed at an investment firm. I took the job not because I loved the investment side, but because the situation felt right and the people were good. I stayed four years for a variety of reasons, but left just after the start of this year.
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