>> So, when I'm in my sophomore year, I so--
I had two ideas, one, I had taken a business statistics class and just fell in love with it.
I mean that sounds completely [inaudible] but, you know, as I took classes,
I tried to kind of get experience as I was going through.
I was able to work-- I went to Rapid [phonetic] University and a lot
of our professors were business people in the area.
So, my insurance professor, I kind of in-- I worked part time for them.
So I got exposure to that.
But then during the summer, I also worked in different like a payroll department
and school systems, so I like to kind of see hands-on what you will be doing
in the workforce as oppose to more academically.
And I didn't end up in the non-profit world until later in my career.
And I think that that benefited me because the first job I was in--
I was in a retail environment and we grew the retail
of [inaudible] stores from-- five stores to 25.
So that retail experience gave me a lot of insight
to cash management and different types of things.
And then I worked in a couple of different places but most folks, you know,
either start ups or business in crisis, so going in and analyzing the financial system and kind
of putting the tools in place so that the organization could have the financial tools
to help better itself.