-: A registered dietician, now I believe you
have to have a Masters degree,
before you can go through the internship.
The internship lasts a year,
and you have a community rotation,
a clinical rotation, food service rotation.
You can do that distance, or you can do it right
through your university, however it's set up.
But that's typically the track, I think it's well worth it.
I love my career choice.
There's a lot of different avenues you can go,
so you can work in a hospital,
you can teach, you can do food service.
A lot of people are doing media, and recipe development.
So there's different places you can go
and you can also be a public speaker.
Certainly take any public speaking classes
if they're offered.
I think an improv class would probably be the way to go
because it makes you think on your toes.
But definitely just getting out and practicing speaking.
So whether it's at a local rotary club,
or something you can get out and you have a passion,
you want people to know about it.
Just get out and start talking in front of people.
And once you start slowly building that resume,
you could start doing regional meetings,
and state meetings, then national seminars.
So, in the public health community nutrition world,
we have a lot of organizations that do the same thing,
but they fail to collaborate and work together.
So, I work with my students on connecting resources
that actually improves the outcomes of our clients.
So when you start doing thought leadership work like that,
and you're finding the crack, and you're being the glue,
that wows me on a resume,
and I think it would any other professional.