From EMT to Media Strategist: Jorge Padilla, Class of 2018, Marketing Major

In this episode of Beyond the Beach, I talk with Jorge Padilla. Jorge was a student in my Business Strategy class in Fall 2018 and graduated from the College of Business with a concentration in Marketing. Jorge started his career as a sales coordinator at iHeart Media and now works as a media strategist at Ocean Media. Our conversation covers topics like the challenge of going to school full time while working as an EMT, struggling to find his first job after graduating, the attraction of doing strategy as a profession and the challenge of finding strategy work early in your career, why learning never stops, and how listening to NPR for my strategy class was a major benefit for his career.