>> The people that you get to work with, both at the company and on the client's side,
are amazing and very present people.
The CEO of this conservation organization used to be the head
of all the pages at the House of Representatives.
So that means he was, basically, just sort of the lynchpin for the House of Representatives.
He knows more people on The Hill or just as many people
on The Hill as any well-embedded politician.
He is an amazing, amazing leader and had this profound ability to read people's emotions,
and part of, one of my job is I get to call a meeting with that person whenever I want
and sit down with him and it's one-on-one, and thank kind of exposure to executive people
who are really impactful in what they do is very, very rare for somebody at an early point
in their career like what I have.
Likewise, at the company itself, at the consulting firm,
all of my colleges are just amazing, brilliant, very sharp,
and generally very good people to get to know.
The hardest part, like I said earlier, is that it can be very demanding in terms the work.
It's because you're constantly delivering to very, very senior-level clients,
and so the expectation is that the work is not going to be work in process.
That you're going to be presenting final drafts of things and of new analyses maybe twice a week
or more than that, which can lead to late nights
and sometimes it can lead to, you know, tense situations.
So it's Friday.
It's 7:30 right now.
I have to go and work after this interview.