>> Well, my name is Carlos Garcia.
I live in Palm Springs, California, and I
work for a global marketing research company.
And so I've been working in the specific field
of Hispanic marketing research since 1980.
That's like a good 35 years.
Bureaucracy, just filling out time sheets and
company forms and getting things into structures
and systems because I work for a global company.
At a global company, they're going
to have processes and procedures
that are used throughout the globe.
I mean, literally everywhere.
So at one point you'll be working
at something and entering things
into these really arcane systems
that are completely un-user-friendly.
I mean, they're spectacularly un-user-friendly.
So they're really complicated systems.
It's really the paperwork and the bureaucracy
that just drives me crazy,
but the actual work I love.
It's a really interesting field.
There's always a need for bright
people and with right, you know,
skills, especially writing skills.
A lot of people can do, you know,
mathematical analyses, but writing, that's hard.
And writing is something you do, one
does a lot here at Pomono [phonetic].
So having those skills are always
underestimated in their value.
You know, you can look for
a job, start an internship.
There are lots of different
ways of going about it.
There's no one absolute definitive path.
And I've talked to a lot of people
in my profession who've come
to this many, many different ways.
I was a foreign languages major.
I did a lot of student government
stuff here too and a lot of theater.
One thing I say to anybody who's
interested in studying business
or going into business is take theater.
Do a theater.
You need to be able to perform in front of
an audience with a script, without a script.
You need to feel comfortable in front
of two people, 200 people, 2,000 people.
You just have to -- it has to be easy for you.
And the only way to get there is mileage.
You have to do it.
So I strongly recommend theater and
any opportunity for public speaking.
Well, first of all, just savor it.
It's such an amazing experience,
and you'll never have anything
like this again in your life.
So it's a pretty extraordinary experience here.
And the one things -- there are some things
that I do regret about my experience.
One is it was not adventurous
enough in taking other classes.
I was, you know, focusing my
major, focusing on things I did.
I didn't take art history.
I didn't take music history.
I didn't, you know, there's a lot
of things that I wish I had done,
cultural things that would be useful
and enriching throughout your life.
And I wish I'd done more of that.