FleetBoston Financial

So these, so these people that called you back, did you end up staying in touch with any of them? Did you, do you end up sharing your successes with any of them?

Well, I, I was o- so this was, this was Fleet, the old Fleet Bank when I got in the business.

Oh, I remember Fleet.

I remember Fleet back in the day.

And research, finance industry, that attracted me a lot more than the thought of teaching.

And so much to the disappointment of my parents, I gave up the thought of teaching and joined a bank in Boston called Fleet Boston Financial.

And that's how my career in finance started.

And I always like to go back, though, when someone has done a PhD, because obviously, if you think you're going to pursue that, first of all, what was the particular subtopic? And how do you think it influenced how you approach the practical application now?

Absolutely.

There were three key transition moments in my mind that I look back at 28 years now even.

Number one was when I first joined Fleet Boston Financial, I was actually hired for my toolkit.

In other words, I was somebody who could program.

And media planning and advertising is very number focused.

So and first I worked on Fleet Bank and it was all the percentages that would change in the paper for the banks and doing all the insertion orders, like all so paper driven still.

I can't even get over how things are different now.

And so I went from working in advertising on Fleet Bank to Dunkin Donuts.

Oh, actually, that was more of my career.

But as an intern, what happened was I had a really great supervisor and she knew I loved to draw and do all the things.