>> The education was valuable.
You know, you look at education and you're in the time of going to class,
pursuing your degree, you have no idea where this is going.
And, matter of fact, the funny thing is I took the 12-year program at Temple
because I was making a lot of money and I didn't necessarily have to go to school.
I wanted to go to school, and then finally I decided to finish it out.
But I remember about two years out of completing it, because I was matriculating,
they said you haven't declared a major yet, they said what do you want to declare?
I said what is the fastest to get out?
And so my degree wound up being in human resources, but the tools that I learned
in human resources, in particular, I'm able to run this organization very effectively,
be able to hire employees, know how to let them go when I need
to let them go, to build benefit plans.
And all of that comes from my insurance background, from investments.
One of the wonderful things is that I had the opportunity to go to school in the evening,
particularly at the end at the Ambler Campus, and just being involved in classes
with other business people, to be able to learn strategies and to take the tools of education
and apply those to my career, that is what has strengthened my ability
to help people around the world.