And also build a personal foundation of experience. The standing joke is "Everything I needed to know about dealing with Salesmen, I learned teaching kindergarten kids."
The two years I spent working inventory gave me the chance to teach myself tenkey by touch, something I've used on a regular basis, but also a feel for courier truck driver schedules and an affection for forklifts and the smell of plywood pallets and cardboard. I've since startled warehouse guys with my facility with packing tape and made friends by volunteering to file packslips.
In the last two weeks, I've given thanks that I took Physics 201 when it wasn't a required course, discussed the Scorpio Simpsons episode and the Ferengi Laws of Acquisition and the Turing machine.
What single corse of instruction, what degree plan can build that? Nope, but twenty years of bopping from video production to diaper manufacturing to high tech components taught me about manufacturing lines and JiT management and well...stuff I'd never have learned had I gone straight from school to a single company, or even a single field, and stayed there.
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The two years I spent working inventory gave me the chance to teach myself tenkey by touch, something I've used on a regular basis, but also a feel for courier truck driver schedules and an affection for forklifts and the smell of plywood pallets and cardboard. I've since startled warehouse guys with my facility with packing tape and made friends by volunteering to file packslips.
In the last two weeks, I've given thanks that I took Physics 201 when it wasn't a required course, discussed the Scorpio Simpsons episode and the Ferengi Laws of Acquisition and the Turing machine.
What single corse of instruction, what degree plan can build that? Nope, but twenty years of bopping from video production to diaper manufacturing to high tech components taught me about manufacturing lines and JiT management and well...stuff I'd never have learned had I gone straight from school to a single company, or even a single field, and stayed there.