From the course: Women Transforming Tech: Tips for Career Success

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Challenges on the path

Challenges on the path

- Our next question is for you Meghan and it's about career challenges. - Has there been a time in your career where you've had to stop to re-evaluate whether you were on your right path? - Absolutely, several times actually 'cause it doesn't occur just once but a time that I'll discuss is originally I wanted to be an academic. I was on a very academic path, my goal was to be the president of a university so teach full time, do research full time, work my way up, et cetera. And as you're working towards a PhD, there's so much faced in research. And the basis of research is statistics. So I had to learn statistics. Okay, and I was in college and me and my professor did not connect and I struggled, struggled, struggled. It wasn't that he was a bad professor, like I just wasn't relating to the way in which he was teaching the class. And I was like, I can't do statistics, like I'm such an idiot. How am I going to…

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