Week 5

The most memorable speakers are the ones who put memes in their presentation. I am talking about the women named May Marks. She is a middle aged women who works as a business economic developer at the Greater Louisville Inc. for the Chamber of Commerce. Through my internship as a website developer at Empowered, we have the opportunity to listen to successful entrepreneurs and business women. May Mark’s story was far from your normal ‘rags to riches’ story.  She graduated from NKU with a major in sports management in hopes of becoming a sports agent. That was 2009 during one of America’s worse recession. So obviously that didn’t really work out. Through memes of the pessimistic cat, she talked about how she always felt lesser than others because everyone was either working their dream job or getting married. She had neither. She later tried starting a education publication business with her mom, and they didn’t know much about investing, so that failed in four years. Up until two years ago she was living in her mom’s house, and had no traditional job experience. However besides the memes, one thing stood out to me. She said the keys to success is flexibility and not comparing yourself to others. May was so used to being her own boss but when she was offered the job at chamber of commerce, she didn’t say no to working for others. She took the job and just adapted. If you are working in business in particular flexibility is key. The market changes constantly some things might be “in” and later be “out” in a couple of years.  You also have to listen to people’s ideas. Don’t be stubborn and stick to your one product that you want to sell sometimes you have to go with what is “hot”. The chamber of commerce is a consultant group that helps non-profit and entrepreneurs more on the technology side develop their business. I want to get an internship at a non-profit or work in a nonprofit so I hope there is one in Danville, Kentucky….