I actually got into marketing by chance. When I was a freshman in college, I was actually called in by the English professor and he told me that he recommended I become an English major. He saw something in my writing ability, and I thought, I do enjoy writing, really as a freshman had no idea what career options there even were out there but I knew I could write. Spoke to my father, he thought, Hey, why don't you give journalism a go? I started in communications at the college I went to, join the student newspaper, did as much as I could to further my career in terms of journalism that pivoted to my first job in public relations writing press releases and that transformed into a job in marketing, which started me on the marketing career path.

So my responsibilities at work, I lead all of the marketing for a particular segment. I work for a large medical distribution supply company in the United States. In fact, we've got an international footprint, but I work U.S marketing for a particular segment. So my job is really to help connect our sales and programs with our customers. I worked very closely with our sales team trying to create value propositions that will help set us apart from our competition, whether that's our distribution capabilities or why our products are better than someone else's any type of marketing things like advertising, things like videos, social media, the full gamut of marketing tools. In terms of how many hours I spent in the office and for work travel, I would say I spend about 50 hours a week. Most of that is at work. I am very fortunate that I don't have to work a lot of overtime. My job is very closely aligned to 8 to 5 which is wonderful. I do have to travel, and I find myself traveling maybe once a month, sometimes on a cadence maybe twice a month but typically once a month is average.

In terms of the tools that I use at work. I pretty much just use the suite of Microsoft office. So I'm again very fortunate, I don't have to be that technical with programs, but I just need to be really good at using Excel PowerPoint and Word.