Prologue On The Street : Neal : Bryant Park, NYC
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English - May 30, 2015 15:16 - 3 minutes - 4.71 MB - ★★★★★ - 243 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Business Careers 99invisible career college entrepreneur freakonomics freshair generationy graduation inspirational inspiring Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dan takes his mic to the streets and interviews Neal / Web Marketing Product Designer (Bounce Exchange) / Bryant Park, NYC.
"I hated [working in finance]. It was the worst. Really long hours, it wasn't very fulfilling, I didn't care for it and I didn't like a good portion of the people I worked with. I was always looking for a way out."
"So how'd that play out?"
"I thought about staying in finance in a different capacity but ultimately I found that I wanted to go out there and venture on my own and do the startup thing. I think I'm more of a person that likes a little bit of an unstructured environment where I get to make a lot of decisions."
"When was the moment you decided to leave your finance job?"
"It was on a trip that I took to Africa, in 2012, I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro [Laughs] and I realize that I never had spent so much effort into a singular goal as I did to climb that mountain and if I had the ability to work that hard and I wasn't doing it at my career than I should be doing something else. I quit three days after I got back."