My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.
I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.
I enjoyed practicing law.
I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.
I worked my way through law school.
I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately - I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.
When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.