Today I shadowed Justin Lambiase in the sales department at SAS. Justin has only been working at SAS for two years, and though most of his day was filled with talking to his colleagues over the phone, it was his back story that really caught my attention. Justin didn’t really know what he wanted to do when he began his college career so he decided to follow the pre-medicine track. However, by the time he finished this degree, he realized he didn’t have the heart to handle the many ups and downs of being a doctor. He had done countless internships in hospitals and, consequently, saw all of the difficult decisions doctors have to make and didn’t think that he would be able to break bad news to the families of his patients. Justin later went on to earn a degree in Finance and begun working at SAS. He talked with me a lot about his college experience and how important it was to do something outside of the normal curriculum. Justin worked for multiple startups in his area during his college career. He told me that in his career he has used more of the knowledge he learned at the start ups than what he learned in college. Justin had many of his own small businesses when he was a teenager, such as a window washing service and running golf lessons, both of which he employed his friends. Justin told me that as a very people oriented person, business and sales always seemed to come naturally for him. In his current job Justin was constantly collaborating with other members of the sales department, as well as the companies he was selling to. Like many other employees at SAS, Justin earned a degree in something that was completely unrelated to what he is doing now. But over time he was able to find a job that really suites him, and that he enjoys.
