-: You have to...
You have to know
and have a very specific vision
and game plan in mind,
you can't just say, "I wanna open up a cookie shop,"
and, you know, start wherever you wanna start.
You have to know your demographic,
so you have to know, you know,
within a five-mile radius,
there's this many people that live here,
they make this amount of money in their household,
and there's this amount of foot traffic.
So there's just different kind of parameters
that you need to be aware of
to understand if that location
is gonna be best-suited for your business or not.
Go get as much experience as you can outside of your school,
call a place and ask if you can shadow for five hours a week
and just see what it's like, or, you know,
get a summer job or an internship, you know,
you have to spend that time
in the industry that you're looking at
or else you're gonna have no idea
if this is gonna be for you.
And going into PT school is particularly expensive, too,
so, you know, if you're gonna go into grad school
for something, especially,
you don't wanna be spending another three years
and a whole bunch of money to not work in that field.
As long as you have people that are good at what they do
I think that you're gonna be OK
in terms of your educational background.
So, what I like about me, is that I went through
and I got all this very movement-focused,
fitness-focused kind of a background,
and I can take that, and I can educate the rest of my team
on what needs to be done, what it should look like,
what somebody's movement pattern should be,
and that kind of thing, so I'm, like, the expert of my team.
And then, one of my other team members,
she has a marketing background,
so I use her to give me some ideas on what I can do better
to better position ourselves to be
a brand name in our hometown.
But I spend a lot of time
taking classes that were built for a physical therapist
because that's what my degree was going to be after
so I did spend a lot more time in, like,
the chemistries, and the physics,
and the upper-level biologies, and those kinds of things
that I didn't really need to use, so,
I wish I probably could have taken some other electives
to help me out with that.