I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
Between being governor and part of the Senate, one of the things I did was I held a chair at the business school at my alma mater, Indiana University. And I'd go to lecture the graduates, and I loved that, answering their questions. It was real; it was tangible, and it was making a difference every day.
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.
I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.
My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
I enjoyed working at McDonald's.
My first job was, like, McDonald's.
I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.