>> The first job I ever got out of college was actually a mortgage company.
So I kind of had the best of both worlds.
I was a finance major but also a real estate major and when I graduated,
the real estate industry was in like a humongous boom of starting to down tick
but I had an opportunity to join a mortgage company that was a small-time mortgage company
but I had humongous responsibilities at the age of 22
because of the opportunity to join a small company.
It really got me started.
I had a sales associate and assistants working for me and I was 22 years old.
So it was a nice feeling.
It definitely allowed me to grow and mature very quickly, knowing that I had people
that were relying on me and from there,
I actually joined Wells Fargo at a pretty young age.
I was working in their auto finance department, which kind of goes back into my background
at Temple, finance, and honestly I was working very, very hard, putting in as many hours
as I could to be successful and I might not have been the best salesman or the smartest person
or I definitely wasn't the oldest person, but I knew that I could work hard going to Temple.
At Temple University, I was a full-time student but I also had a 40-hour-a-week job on campus.
So I learned time management.
I learned hard work and I learned what all that could do for you.
I graduated Temple in four years, which is what my scholarship was,
so I knew that I could outwork the next person and I took that attitude into my career
and really used that to propel me forward.