Consultant: A liberal arts college,
I think it prepares you
to do the rigorous thinking really well
but it doesn't always give you the skills,
the actual hard skills that you can pick up.
So I would just encourage people in general
to think about, communication is one,
just general ability to speak, write, all those things,
just an overall quantitative skillset.
So being sure that you can get a set of information,
work on in Excel, or in a programming language,
something like that.
And I think the other big one
that you might not get in college,
that's something you have to think about,
is overall kind of a project management skillset,
and this is being able to communicate
to upwards and downwards.
Being able to think about tasks, timing, and people,
what everyone wants, that kind of thing.
These are skills that I think you can practice,
at any stage of your life, you can practice them socially,
you can practice them in your classes
in managing professors and things like that.
But those are really the things that differentiate you
when you start trying to tackle problems
in the business world.
Definitely try to pick something initially
that's really challenging.
I think the jobs that you can get right out of college,
those ones that you work a lot of hours,
and you earn a lot of money,
are a really good way to start out
because I couldn't have done this
if I didn't have enough capital to live on
for a certain amount of time.
You want to be able to go whatever it is,
six months, a year, two years, without earning any money,
because otherwise you just don't have any margin for error.
The faster you can get to that,
the faster you can actually start off and take some risks.