-: I would say being humble.
I think you land your first job, you're really excited,
you're ready to use all the skills
that you learned from NGIT.
You aced your final exams, you got your degree,
you know what you're ready to do.
It was very humbling
because although I was really excited,
it came off different.
It came off as arrogance.
Working with union employees, hourly workers,
their perception was, whoa,
(mumbles) walking over here like she knows everything.
I was just really excited to work at General Mills.
Understanding where people's motivations lie,
that was a really difficult, challenging thing
for me to learn and understand
because I just wanted to do my best job
and move to the next role and be really good at it.
But you're nothing without the people
that help you get there,
so taking insight from the mechanics, the operators,
and learning from them, and understanding, no,
you don't know everything
just because you passed differential equations.
But it's really those hands-on skills
that make you what you are.