Growing up in a family with no business background, the author navigated various jobs, from being a busboy at a pizza place to working as a clerk at a bankruptcy law firm. Despite his parents’ professions—his father a lawyer and his mother a teacher—and his grandparents’ fish and chips store in Harlem, he found himself exploring different roles, including making cold calls for Smith Barney and tutoring English in Barcelona. Eventually, like many unsure of their career path, he decided to attend law school at Emory University, seeking direction and purpose in his professional life.
QUESTION: How might exploring diverse job experiences before choosing a career path influence your future decisions and opportunities?
From pizza joint bus boy to Yahoo CEO: Jim Lanzone on how to do hard things and not to be afraid of them
