>> I did my undergraduate work in education,
and ended up working for AT and T as a clerk,
as one of my entry level positions, and worked
my way up through the ranks quite frankly.
I got into a supply chain management
function because of my interfaces
with the Bell Atlantic companies for
AT and T, and rapidly grew from there,
and learned a lot of different categories, a
lot of different commodities along the way.
And moved from AT and T to several
other fortune [inaudible] companies,
and now I'm at National Rural
Electric Cooperative Association.
The graduate degrees are very important for
career growth and for your basic knowledge
of what you do in the field, and if I
had had more knowledge along the way,
I probably would have been more advanced
in my career currently, quite frankly.
However, I've also learned several
new principles that I'm applying
to my current position at NRECA,
so it' always good to learn.