-: I would say be ready to try new things.
I would say jump into any opportunity you can have.
So for me and a lot of my coworkers,
we come from a background in customer service.
So I was a server and a bartender
and that also requires a lot of difficult conversations
and thinking quickly on your feet.
So don't necessarily think it has to be
a business professional in an office job kind of experience,
a lot of other experiences can give you
good, transferable skills.
And then just be ready to think on your feet
and move quickly.
The job's changing all the time.
You work with people, you can't control people
and so you have to be okay with that.
I think the small business communication course
I took at the U of M was really, really helpful.
At the beginning of the semester,
the professor broke up us randomly into groups,
and that's your group for the semester.
No option to change,
even if you don't get along with your group members.
That it's your group and you have to figure it out.
And I think that was huge
because that's how it is at work too.
You don't get to pick and choose your coworkers,
but you have to find a way to work well together.
And I think it was the most applicable
to the real world class I took.