>> One thing they can work on is no matter what they do,
even if they don't want to do my job is be ambitious.
Be busy, and find things to keep yourself occupied and constantly develop.
You do that by surrounding yourself with people that are better than you because it'll force you
to want to perform at their level, and even if you don't meet that level, you're still going
to perform better than you would have if you were on your own.
Too many times I meet college students who have no club sports,
no club activities, no organizations.
They just go to college, and you need to realize that there are people aside from yourself
who are doing that, and that's what you need to do as well in order to be successful.
For me, being a business marketing management major, when I was on the infantry side,
you would never think of it, but part of my business [inaudible] is human resources,
and the other part was management.
Certain skills that I learned regarding human resources, how to understand them,
how to work with my Marines because their morale and welfare is one of my number one concerns,
and human resources help me do that.
The management side, I had some other ways of leading Marines that were maybe outside the box
of the Marine Corps that helped me really work with my Marines.
Now as an officer selection officer, part of my job is to develop marketing plans
and conduct market analysis and decide where we're going to spend money.
My marketing analysis and my marketing management plan has been used as an example
for the southeast region of the United States.
So I put my plan up, and it went to our command, and they sent it to the other 12 OSO's
in the district and said this is what your plan needs to look like,
and that wouldn't be possible without my degree.