>> Batch 8555: So my background's in accounting.
I really love math and so I figured accountants make good money let me go into that.
I worked with South Carolina Department of Revenue for about 4 months.
It was really good money, but it was not, it wasn't rewarding enough for me.
I felt like I really wasn't doing all that I could do and so I decided to take a year off
and join City Year, it was about giving back working with, in schools helping youth
which are our future and so I did that program for 2 years fell in love with it,
it really hit on my passion of being able to coach and mentor students and really be
that big sister for them and really help lookout for them and listen to them
and help support them and really provide them that encouragement that they need to get
through those hard times especially with their contemplating, you know,
just not doing their work or dropping out having that mentor there was really important to me
and I think the passion behind it and the importance
of education is really what keeps me motivated to go to work every day.