>> -- to speak to careers in technology, and specifically, careers in Silicon Valley,
which is where the bulk of my experience is.
Move out there.
There are literally hundreds of companies
that are being funded every week that are desperate to hire.
And I can't -- I can't emphasize enough how exciting that network is.
How vibrant it is as a place to be, and a place to start a career.
If you know you want to be in technology, I would --
I think you'd be a fool not to at least consider moving out there.
It is the epicenter of everything that the technology world hopes and dreams to be.
The, you know, venture capitalists are all there.
The talent in terms of engineering and the structural support is there.
The whole place is just abuzz with founders and acquisitions, and it's the general talk
of the Bay area and Silicon Valley is around technology
and how to make things more efficient, and you know, better user experiences.
And it's just, people are constantly pushing themselves in that realm.
So my first point of advice would be to move out there and spend at least a couple years there.
And a lot of these places have programs like LinkedIn, has a program called the BLP program.
The Business Leadership Program.
And what it does is it brings fresh graduates into a rotation program where you start,
you do three months in marketing.
You do three months in sales.
You do three months in ad ops.
And then after that point, you figure out, you know, more or less what your fit's going to be.
And then you go off and you start a full-time position in one of those three realms.
And Facebook has a similar program; Google has a similar program.
They're great ways to get exposed to a lot of different things,
and really figure out what you want to do.
And frankly, that was my biggest struggle was just not knowing what I wanted to do,
starting with the generalization of yes,
I want to work in technology; it's a great place to start.
And then you can, you know, iterate and figure it out from there.
But particularly in technology, I'd move out there.