-: There's stuff that you learn
and certainly exposure to the courses and the professors
were amazing, right.
That some amazing, amazing professors
had some great coursework
but I think I was taught how to think
which is something that really helped me
throughout my career.
Some of that was the choices I made from a major standpoint.
So I was an English major
but I was also a religion minor.
And so one of the things about being an English major
and taking composition courses
is kind of understanding an audience, right,
and what people want to hear
and on the other side, why authors made choices.
And so that way of analyzing a text
and then having that feedback into how you might write
a paper or your own texts
is something that turns out to be
a quintessential marketing skill.
There's no getting around the risk,
there's no getting around the demands on your time,
and there's no getting around the fact that you might fail.
And that doesn't mean not to try it
but it means respect the fact that
failing is easy, right, and it could happen.
So understand what you're getting into in the first place.
What is the work that you're gonna do every day
that you love?
'Cause if you're doing something just for the money,
and I learned this a long time ago.
If you're doing something and you're following the money,
bad things can happen.
But if you're doing what you love
and you do the right thing,
good things usually follow, including revenue,
including profits and things like that.
So your motivation is important.