>> So I went to school at USC, graduated with a bachelor's and master's in economics
and then had no idea what I wanted to do so I did a master's in public policy.
The last degree was public policy so I figured that I would probably go that route
and I actually had no idea of what economic consulting or litigation consulting was.
Randomly was walking around at a career fair just checking out, you know,
what jobs might be available and saw the name of a firm, the first firm that I used to work for.
It's called Compass Lexecon and it's not spelled lexicon
like you would normally expect it, it's spelled lexecon.
So I said okay that's cool, you know, they're clearly something economics related.
Went up to the table and talked to the guys, you know, they explained what they did.
I thought that it sounded really interesting, I applied, and I sort of just fell in to that job.
They made me an offer pretty quickly and so by, you know, mid fall of my second year
of grad school so I still had a semester and a half to go, I had a job lined up.
So I was still completing the master's in public policy
but because I had the econ background I felt like it was a good fit especially
because it's something that if I had attempted to find a job coming out of school
with the economics degree I might not have known about them.
So I felt comfortable with pursuing that route rather than the public policy route.