-: One mistake that I made personally
and that I would tell anybody that's looking
to work in a science-related field,
you're gonna go to a university three to five years
for your degree, right?
Take those summers, don't go work some job
where you're gonna make eight, 10 bucks an hour,
and just get a paycheck.
Go get an internship, go work in different fields,
go work as an environmental chemist, go work
as as a QA/QC tech internship, invest in yourself.
It may hurt, I know it may hurt to only make
whatever an internship pays nowadays
and not take that summer job or work
that job that fits you financial at that point in your time,
but the hard skills that you'll develop
in those summer internships or taking
those jobs while you're here at school.
A, you'll learn that I may not like
to be an environmental chemist, I may not like
to be a QA/QC tech.
So you'll at least be able to eliminate something,
or you may be able to find something that you like
and you'll have that job experience
that most employers are looking for.
Well you have to understand how your company makes money,
first and foremost.
So, if you have to certify that product
or however you want to think of your job
as a core function, that does somehow tie
to the company making money.
And you need to make sure that happens.
And you also really just need to make sure
that you're there to execute for the company,
so no matter what time of day, if you need
to certify something for a client or a customer,
or do a test for them, or actually even just
to make sure that somebody doesn't lose a bunch of money
by doing some quality testing, to make sure
that that gets done really under all circumstances
is how to be successful in your career.