>> So I got my undergraduate degree from Penn State in 2005.
It was in finance from the business school.
And by the time I had finished -- I had done a co-op while I was here, I guess my junior year.
I spent six months working for Johnson & Johnson, which was great, you know,
as far as great company to get corporate finance experience with,
but by the end of the experience, I realized I didn't want to do corporate finance.
Just wasn't -- it just didn't feel right to me.
It wasn't a good career path.
So I know I didn't want to do corporate finance.
I wasn't really into the investment banking scene.
None of that stuff felt right to me, so I just started signing up for all sorts
of different interviews just to get a feel for companies and to meet people and try to figure
out what I wanted to do, and then, ultimately, consulting was what appealed to me,
I think be I like problem solving.
I like a lot of variety in my work.
So consulting was a natural fit.
And that's how I ended up in the consulting world.
And then I got put into the compensation consulting group because of the finance degree.
That showed that I had some analytic skills, and so they decided
to slot me there, which was great.
So I really just got put into the compensation consulting role,
but it turned out to be a great fit, and I really liked it.
It was nice to have that specialty, which I think, had I wanted to stay in consulting,
it would have been good to have a specialty like that because it is sort
of a niche that not everybody knows.
I think, after a few years -- it was probably after my third year.
I know I wanted at least a couple of years of solid experience before I left,
so I know I wasn't go to leave within the first two years.
And then it sort of took me another year, year-and-a-half to figure out exactly
where I was going to go and what I was going to do.
So I really liked it with Dulitt [phonetic].
I really liked consulting.
But when I looked at my career path, it was a very clear career path
and career trajectory if I stayed with Dulitt.
And there were good opportunities there, but I just didn't want
that to be the only thing I had ever done.
I didn't want it to be -- I felt like I needed something else to leverage myself up
and to have some other kind of value to add.
I felt like I needed to bring some from the outside that I didn't already have.