I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.
My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.
I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.
I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired.
I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.
My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.