um, if I go back toe school. I always knew that I wanted Thio do business school. I'm a lease for undergrad. So I went to the university, Utah, and graduated in business specifically, and information systems. But I didn't really have a plan of what I wanted to do with that. Like, cos I wanted to work For what? In the show I wanted to be in. So, um, I did a lot of thinking. I did a lot of interviews. I did an internship where I was doing someone development, and I decided I didn't want to do whether development for a career. I wanted that to be more like a hobby. Um, so eventually I, you know, talk to some friends, and I have always been fascinated with the airline industry in my whole life. So I turned that that's that's where I wanted to be. I wanted to be in the airline industry. Um, and however was gonna make that happen, was what was gonna happen. Um, So, um, it's a hard industry to get into a lot of trouble. Jobs are all right, you know, low pain. Um, So what I decided to do was I decided to go the route of just getting my foot in the door with, you know, one of the airlines I applied at probably five different airlines, I think for just any job. Like like reservation, like jobs you don't need a college degree for But I just wanted to get a foot in the door. My God. Interview with Alaska Airlines, which is where I work now help in Seattle on by for the interview. It was I wasn't planning on taking the job because it was very low pay, and I was looking for something else. Then when I did the interview and I met everybody and I just saw, like they the fact that they really encouraged internal growth, that the company is what sold me, I was like, Yeah, this job isn't what I want to be doing long term, but this is the This is the company. I wanna be a long term. So I took it out. Yeah, we moved up to Seattle, took the job, and it was the struggle for a while because it's a lot more expensive than Salt Lake was to live. I'm gonna pay was not great. Um But I you know, I worked worked hard, and I was only in that job for 18 months, and, um, and I had this opportunity Thio give a presentation to the Revenue Management Department, which is where I work now. And when I gave that presentation to them, I also learned that they had some job, a couple of job openings and let me job shout out with them and I met everybody. And then I decided to interview and e got the job in revenue management. So I moved over to the corporate side, Um, a job that you do need a college degree for more of what I was looking for more. It's an analyst position. Um, so I think what I've learned from that journey is when I was first searching for a job or a career, I was setting my sights a little too high and really like instead of instead of searching for the paycheck, I needed to be searching for either the industry or the company. Like somewhere I want, where I was valued and that had room to grow and where I enjoyed working. So that's that's what did it for me

So my weekly hours a pretty standard. Uh, it's Ah, it's Ah, you know, 80 85 job. Oh, um, yeah, and it's been great since, you know, since the pandemic happened, have been able to be working from home since then. So that's been amazing, too, Especially since I have a one year old at home that I could see throughout today was joined. Nice. Um, my responsibilities are So I met. I'm a yield management analyst in Alaska Airlines, and that isn't the revenue management department. And then it's a little complicated how airline pricing works, so I'll just kind of explain really quick how that works. There's two teams in my department to main major teams in my department. There's a pricing team and the inventory team. So the pricing team, they they go through each of the different markets we fly. So, for example, Seattle to L. A. Is a market that we fly and they set all the different price points, um, that we could possibly be selling. I would say we're gonna sell more expensive tickets for holidays or weekends. We're gonna sell cheaper tickets for, you know, Tuesdays and things like that. Eso they stay set and they look at what all the other airlines are selling all the different price points. And they, you know, either try to match some of the other airlines, or they tried toe tryto undercut them or things like that. So that's what that team does that my team is the inventory team on. What we do is we take all those different price points and we determine through the use of forecasting software and knowledge about the industry and things like that. We determine for all of our flights which of those price levels we need to be selling. For example, if I have ah, Sunday flight, the Sunday actually Thanksgiving, I don't I don't need to be selling my cheapest. Normally, I don't need to be selling my cheapest the cheapest option, but I have to sell. I want to sell more tickets. So that's my job. Is I managed inventory. Um, well, what we're doing is we're managing supply and demand. Um, each airplane has a limited amount of supply, and I'm managing how much demand I think is going to be willing thio purchases for that that plane. And if we manage it poorly. The plane either ends up empty or it ends up selling out in advance. Um, yeah. So that's my main responsibility, right?

So we use the, uh, the main tool that we use is the revenue management software. It's built by a company called Amadeus. Um, and but I do use a lot of analytical tools as well. We use some pretty common ones. So we use a lot of tableaux, do a lot of building works and tableau. We use a program called All Tricks, which is really good. It's for workflow processing. It's a fantastic program. We see we do a lot of querying and sequel. You use people. Ah, lot, um, those were the main tools that I use. My job. Yeah. What?