World of eSports, a show devoted to all things eSports. I'm your host, Catherine Norr. Today we're talking with Uzair Hassan of eSports How about mobile eSports. Welcome Uzair. Welcome. Thanks Catherine. I'm very happy to be here. Fantastic. Okay. So what is eSports How? So eSport How is an eSporting gaming consultancy. We work with businesses on a global scale to help them position themselves into the eSporting gaming space because what a lot of businesses are starting to realize is that with their current line of products and services is that they're missing the hit the younger demographic and they're also noticing this growing trend in cultures to really be involved in gaming. So a lot of these businesses are now wondering how can they get their current line of products and services into the field. So that's what my business primarily does is how work with those businesses to see if this makes sense for them and their business model and then how they can position themselves into the overall eSporting gaming scene. Okay. And we will return to talk more about that in a little bit, but we're here to talk about mobile eSports. Okay. Now mobile eSports is pretty exciting and what makes it so exciting there? Like mobile eSports in North America, most people just aren't aware of how big it really is. So when you look in the east, it's really dominated all over. Just like for any eSport game, you kind of see NA is slower and it's like Jeff Chow puts it really nicely. Mobile eSports now is what sports players used to see eSports as like fake eSports in this case. But in actuality, mobile eSports has really taken the east by storm and we're just seeing that transition into the north, especially with the revenue streams on the gaming side in the gaming industry. Mobile gaming generates more revenue for the publishers than PC, console and VR combined. So it's massive and the eSports side is reflecting that too, especially in the past three to five years where we've really started to see big titles like PUBG Mobile, Green S Free Fire and a lot of other titles really starting to build out their eSports scene. Okay. So I understand eSports is huge in Asia, huge in India. What other areas of the world it has mobile eSports really dominated? A lot of countries. So we see China for sure. China's honor of kings is massive. It's a massive cultural phenomenon. Vietnam, Brazil, there's really just anywhere outside of North America mobile eSports has really taken storm and a lot of it is a because of yes, the mobile technology is cheaper. So people that are not in the as well of a financial state as we might be in North America, they have access to mobile gaming. But it's not only that because a lot of these countries as well, they have a bunch of PC bongs and gaming arenas that they can go play in. But what really makes mobile eSports special is that it's the social aspect.  Pokemon Go made a few mistakes where they weren't able to keep that traction going. But we're starting to see a lot of other games, especially in different countries where like PUBG mobile, for example, is really, really big in countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, where they because of the social phenomenon and the ability to make relationships with that, it just really helps it take off. And if you look at honor of king, for example, a lot of people in China make relationships from honor of kings, because you get to know the players and people really build strong relationships, not to mention that mobile eSports, unlike most other eSports segments, is predominantly female. They're more female players than male players in most mobile eSport games. And why would there be more females playing mobile eSports than possibly PC or console? Yeah, it's hard to say straight up, but one of the predominant reasons that it seems like is mobile and the way they structured their games differently than PC is that the barrier of entry is much lower. It's much easier for someone to enter the overall game. And like obviously PC early on was especially targeted towards the male demographic where we see like if you look at honor of kings and the way they built their characters and their branding, it's a lot more friendly, a lot more attractive to this female audience that PC and other game failed to tap into where these mobile titles are actually doing really well because of this low barrier and that they're just not tapped into from the other segments of the industry. I would say that's why it's not like we're seeing females starting to balance out even on the PC side is just because of how mobile was so open to everyone is that females that usually wouldn't typically play on PC are now playing mobiles on their phone instead of a computer. It's kind of mobile esports is that kind of a gateway to console or PC or is it something that would just be in itself like once you start playing mobile you'll just continue to play mobile or do you just move where would you move on? Typically you would see them sticking to the mobile title. We don't not that I'm aware of there's any real statistics showing that they're transitioning and that's because of the cultural phenomenon mobile esports actually didn't really take off until three years ago versus if you look at PC esports you know that's been going on for at least a decade now a bit more than that where mobile esports because of that social aspect because when you go around you know your friends are playing it and you want to engage with your friends and there's so many different opportunities that coming from it we don't really see like players really transitioning out of it as mobile is the inferior platform rather it because a big part of it is when you're going out for events so when you're on the on a commission you're able to just play at that point in time and we even see this at live esport events where the fans you know while they're waiting are actually playing with the people in the audience and just enjoying the game live which you can't do with PC games which makes mobile so powerful and so just like again i love the example of pokemon go because it really showed the power of mobile and the interconnectivity there so i i feel like mobile is really the direction we're going and north america's only like two steps behind like we always are is there a difference between a mobile game like for example pub g if you played it on mobile versus playing it on pc or console would there be a difference the main difference would be that the games are shorter simply because you're playing typically playing it on the go the like kind of feel the game is also different based on the actual controller using being a mobile device but um and what we're what we originally saw in mobile esports is a transition from like pc games and console games onto the mobile platform now we're starting to see publishers making dedicated games for mobile just because of how big it is from a revenue standpoint so currently it's just that transition and those games are typically shorter but now we're starting to see more dedicated games for the actual mobile console now on the the mobile games are there a lot of interruptions of commercials and ads no not on a competitive esport games though the games that make about a billion dollars the majority of them are actual competitive esport mobile games so and what we see there is a majority of that revenue is coming from micro transactions not really the advertisements like supercell does this really well with their clash royale clash of clans brawl stars their line of titles where they have a lot of good in-game purchases and they make a lot of revenue through those and we're seeing that micro transactions dominate the mobile esports scene especially and it's so easy to make that micro transaction just connect to your google play you just click a few buttons and then it's it's very seamless and that's part of the reason why it's so much easier for them to make a lot of money on mobile so are people actually viewing and playing esports mobile in mobile fashion yeah 100 um what we see even like apps like instagram these mobile streamers and players get a lot more interaction on these social platforms that are typically on your phone because these audiences are based on mobile and yeah there's a huge huge viewership if you look at free uh greenhouse free fryer if you compare their peak viewership to uh like the top games their number two right behind legal legends and i believe they also occupy the third and fifth spot according to esport charts so yeah the viewership in mobile is very very big and because it's primarily those players are playing on mobile is that now their social media is connected there the notification and they have a lot large large interactive base there as well and and you know i i do have to admit that i do have uh twitch and discord and and uh other games on my phone um that i may not have on my laptop or pc um would that be kind of a common situation yeah yeah you typically see that people use those kind of apps on the go and um especially for mobile gamers where you're you know everything's kind of on your phone uh specifically those in different countries that are leveraging their phones more so on commute and trying to get involved in the community and culture because again mobile esports dominates the culture the one powerful aspect to mobile esports is that not only are you playing it people a large party you're playing it now they're dominating the culture if you go to china and see again honor of kings is really taken over it is um phenomenal and we're very interested to see like last year call of duty mobile their downloads in north america was off the charts in 2019 i haven't checked the 2020 statistics but i'm sure it was very much high up there too and now we're waiting for really legal legends wild rift to add something um people on the mobile side are really really excited to see how that might really shift uh north america's thinking to incorporate more mobile esports you know um it seems logical that mobile would be huge and that it would have been huge earlier than than just in recent years because people around the world have mobile phones but they may not have access to laptops and pc's is that right yeah uh that is see that is a that is an aspect for sure but it's not a massive uh catalyst to mobile like it does help especially when we see countries like china uh sorry not china like india like pakistan that aren't um that don't really have that many computers but they have a bunch of pc banks and uh arenas where they could come down and play but it's a large part of it is the social aspects that allow that interconnectivity there um that is because of the accessibility in north america there is that kind of stigma towards uh pc players and console players versus uh mobile gamers and that like stigma like compared to sports and esports sports players saying esports is in a real thing we kind of see the same thing here like i mentioned before well well typical esport players and gamers comparing a mobile gamer is as not typical gamers and to to be fair in their point since 80 of the downloads from mobile games come from casual games you could make that argument about 50 of the play time or a little bit more than 50 of play time on all mobile games in general come from these competitive esport games because people are soaking hours and hours into these games trying to get as uh high of a rank as possible so you you mentioned um north america quite a bit and yeah are you including south america and central america in that or are they into mobile esports i know brazil is pretty big into the esports scene when i'm saying north america i'm specifically talking about uh like north america us canada because that's a lot where i do my own business and my research lies i haven't looked too much in south america uh and central america but i do know that like countries like brazil uh do have a pretty big mobile scene is just really this first world uh western uh you know north america we don't see mobile just taken off just yet and are there any other reasons why that you haven't mentioned of about why north america is so far behind in mobile it's it's it's interesting just because of the like the cultural differences in uh the western society and like how everything's a structuralized and obviously the fact that we kind of have uh pcs and consoles very readily and people are very interactive there i'm i honestly i'm not like 100 sure beyond the cultural reasons and the fact the the stigma between mobile and competitive that we don't see massive north america blowback besides the support from uh publishers so like we saw supercell uh enter i believe it was in 2018 and they pulled out from north america uh i think it's uh 10 cent is actually starting to push more into north america i believe they built up their partnership in 2019 or 2019 with csl to build out i know on the eastern side first but they're they're expanding throughout and it's um so there's there's potential in north america the the publishers the main catalyst aren't haven't pushed it hard especially 10 cent 10 cent has really dominated like they own shares in green uh which is free fire and they have um like arena valor they own um obviously pubg mobile honor of kings uh game of peace they really dominate the mobile scene and that's why riot games is really entering the scene because of the pressure that 10 cent is applying although they they were refusing to do that earlier like there was an interview i think it was in 2017 where an executive from riot games was saying you know they had some tension with 10 cent there and if you aren't aware 10 cent owns 100 percent of riot games and they had some tension there with their parent company just saying that we don't want legal legends on mobile because you can't recreate that experience and thanks to the new technological advancement the empowered battery life the better CPUs the better GPUs internally and the smaller platforms and especially the increased size of the platform it allows for that um like ability for publishers to do a lot more and that's why riot games is entering the mobile scene and like the the thing about mobiles is that honor of kings was one of the earlier mobiles to enter the mobile scene and the issue they kind of came in with was they started off by making a mobile 3v3 mobiles are typically 5v5 like we see with dota 2 legal legends but they try to do 3v3 it didn't work out and once the and that was because of technological restrictions and once the technology allowed them to expand they went from almost going bankrupt into an extremely billion dollar profitable uh mobile game which has done a phenomenal job for them and riot games is really looking to capitalize on that and we've seen just currently in their beta their success even from the north america side although it's not out in north america they like they've said uh so many people are using vpn to play the game because they're just so interested in seeing you know how riot worth is and they've done a phenomenal job differentiating the games and making it interesting for even pc players want to give it a try sure and we do have questions from viewers and let's go to those because i one of the questions from our viewer is something that i have as well so i'm gonna okay so the question is um okay i want to start streaming mobile games what is the best phone and that leads to my question is can you use an iphone an android both and and also can you use an ipad or a tablet yeah it would depend on the game typically though across the board it seems like iphone's are your best bat as far as streaming these mobile games um if you're especially if you're using in the way you typically would stream them is using an algado a capture or a different capture capture card you connect it directly to your computer software and then from there you're able to get that footage and the video from your computer as well to stream your gameplay there so and iphone's just seemed to do the best and when you're streaming tournaments will either using an emulator if your computer can run it that's how bigger publishers are streaming their tournaments but if you're obviously if you're just a player not using a pc emulator to stream your tournament or your game that you're playing you would just use a ipad ipads ideal just because of the uh the ratio and it depends on the game but like if we're talking about clash royale clash of clans i believe pubg mobile also streams their stuff on a um tablet of some sort so that that is usually your best bat okay and then um another question from the same viewer was how do i record myself yeah so uh like if you're using the algado capture card what you would want to do is from your same pc that the algado is or or the other or the capture card whatever capture card you're using is connected to the pc using the software you just capture an input from your um camera that's connected typically to your computer and then also your phone you you typically have a central operating system that captures it from your phone rather than having to capture it from your phone directly you can also use applications on your phone i can't remember the app right now off the top of my head but there's a good one that allows you to do that over wi-fi so you don't even need a capture card but you just generally need a system to pick up that footage and then same thing for your face is that it just all goes through your software and that streams to the platform that you want to stream on terrific and another question from a viewer is hokiman goh was popular um was a popular augmented reality ar game do you think an ar game can become a practical use sport that's that's a very interesting question i think uh pokemon goh they just lacked a lot of functionality that people were looking for when the game initially came out um so like obviously the inability to battle or interact with individuals was uh harmful to it as far as ar games we like i guess even taking it a step back vr games um we we see a growing popularity as they become more accessible that's currently their biggest weakness is that they're not accessible but a lot of these uh vr arcades what they're doing is that they're hosting tournaments there where they would typically give you a bulk amount of hours you can play so you're able to play in excessive time and then once that's done people love excuse me competitive vr games and um so as far as ar goes i would i would it would depend on how the publisher kind of set it up but there is that again optionality if the competitive nature is there and it's able to really um bring people together in a competitive light where people want to compete with each other and also the viewability is very important for any esport title if those elements are able to be brought in then there is that possibility for sure okay so you've been mentioning like um pubg and some other titles um what are the largest mobile esports titles currently um are there others besides those you've mentioned like fortnight uh fortnight fortnight is a mobile platform but it's like it's it's um cross-platform so like i don't believe i might be mistaken i'm pretty sure i'm not here where mobile fortnight isn't separate like you can play mobile fortnight and because of the cross-platform you're playing with the other players where i believe the competitive side there's no differentiation there um i i know in worlds they don't do it i don't know if they do it any other side but um like ten sense arena valor is a another platform which which it was a mobile but now they stop supporting it because of wild rift and they want to put their 100 support there because they see it uh really blowing up there is um vanguard that's fairly big there's um all the ten cent games or supercell games are fairly big so we got clash royale clash with clans brawl stars um there's mobile legends bang bang which was arguably one of the earliest mobile esport game titles um and that i that one is also a mobile but i if i'm not mistaken but there there is a handful of platforms also uh cod mobile i can't forget that one that one especially north america is really in 2019 so i'd take off there where and now we're starting to see more publishers trying to enter the scene because again every game that really makes a billion dollars within the gaming industry has been or mobile gaming industry rather has been these competitive esport titles with some exceptions like handy crush and other casual games majority of them are these competitive esport titles sir and where do you see mobile esports progressing in the next five years so mobile esports i personally and this is arguably by some like people have different opinions on this i would see mobile esports really starting to blow up in north america i think and this is again my personal opinion completely i think cobit hurts mobile esports just because of that inability to leverage it on the go and to be able to see your friends playing it and trying it out um but like i would see within the next two two to five years that mobile esports starts to really blow itself out within north america i see some unique publishers coming into the scene again what we've really seen up till now is people are publishers replicating their pc game onto mobile and mobile just has a different feel where they have to really change up the game i see new games just entirely new games coming into the actual mobile scene that really worked well with its quick pace more casual on like commuting and like when you're just waiting somewhere and those type of games i see those really coming out and a lot of different publishers competing for that market because right now 10 cent is really the one that dominates the majority uh majorly so we're just trying to see you know who else is going to come in and be a major contender but mobile esports is really going to in my opinion blow out and continue to be a massive massive source of revenue for these publishers in the next two to five years so do you think that pandemic has impacted either the popularity or the kind of necessity of doing mobile esports at all yeah i mobile esports in the areas that it's had culturally dominated haven't necessarily suffered a great deal from it i think the further ability to expand it in countries that aren't necessarily mobile dominant have probably struggled i wouldn't be able to say that from specifically the data just because i i haven't fully looked at the 2020 data as far as how how it's grown because obviously as we recently transitioned to 2021 someone that's still coming together but um the but the sides that we've seen like in eastern countries they definitely have not like mobile esports didn't suffer just because the cultural dominance that it's had and the players commitment to that specific console to play on okay so let's shift to esport how tell us more about what you do in that with that company yeah so esport how is a consultancy so we work with different businesses typically to help them position themselves into esports or see how they can leverage esports as a whole to hopefully change their line of services or products or make a new line of service and products to generate revenue for them by leveraging this growing phenomenon and like we see you can brand it like an average chair to be an esport chair and then up upmarket by a significant portion same thing for gaming drinks and different peripherals where people are looking into you know how can they enter this scene with these changes sure and i think that that's really important because there are so many people so many companies and people who have you know like i think you know it's very clear that obviously sports traditional sports have had challenges in the past year and that companies are starting to see that perhaps they should find a place with their products for their business and they notice esports is growing exponentially so do you help educate those companies and people about esports to help them understand how to enter the space yeah like 80 percent of my job is really education it was really surprising to me especially in the age group that i'm in and the you know the group that i'm in is to kind of be you know blown away by the fact of how much people really don't know about the esports scene the gaming scene i always go to networking events and like i would say that i'm an esport consultant and there's always that handful of people that say what is esports and they keep like they have no idea what's coming up and that really it hurts them to not know this growing trend because it's massive you would think that you know everyone's aware that fortnight and these different game platforms but they're not aware of how big the esports segment really is and it's my job is to educate them have have them help help them understand the cultural phenomenons the differences between different games or esports scene and what if their current line of products and services would make sense to enter that scene to best you know help them as far as their profit and how they're growing their businesses in the next three to five years to follow this growing trend in tech okay so i'm going to give you the last word is there about how how people can contact you and any last words you'd like to tell us about mobile esports yeah so if you're interested in contacting me like if you run a business or you're looking to enter the esports scene as a whole you can go to my website esporthow.com or you can email me at userews at air.hasan at esporthow.com not esportshow.com and yeah i'd be happy to help and give free consultation anytime that terrific um it's been a pleasure to have you as a guest today was there and i appreciate it we've learned i've learned a lot about mobile esports happy to hear that it was a pleasure to be on all right thank you everyone for joining us today on the think tech live stream think tech hawaii live streaming network and thank you to our viewers who sent in questions next week i'll be talking with dr ryan turow about esports psychology see you then


What's happening? It's Shane here and today we're going to be talking about the least regretted college majors. Anybody who's watched my channel know that a significant amount of people end up regretting going to college and that is for a bunch of different reasons but the main ones are that first of all it costs a lot and second of all a lot of the time it's not going to help you get a job if you go for the wrong major.  It doesn't really give them a return on their investment but that's not the only reason people regret going to college. There are many others and in today's video I'm going to talk about the majors that people tend to not regret and making the decision on the best majors to pick is very difficult. It's one of those things where a lot of people will pick their major and they end up changing it you know two or three times before they graduate. It's too much and that's because the best major is going to change depending on the person right so if you need help picking the best possible college major for you definitely check my channel out this video is going to help you as well but I do have a course down in the description below that's the college 101 course it is going to help you pick the perfect major for you it's also going to help you get the most out of college with the least amount of time effort and money and before we get into the video make sure to gently tap the like button hit the subscribe button and ring the notification bell and let's get right into it number five on the list is going to be health sciences and technologies now with the way zip recruiter collected this data 18.94% of people who got this degree regretted it and the main reason for their regret was because they ended up having low job satisfaction afterwards now this of course encompasses a bunch of different degrees and career paths out there but a couple examples would be a radiation therapist or a dental hygienist and also as a comparison the most regretted type of degree would be English and foreign language and that is 42% regret and the reason for that is impractical or limited job opportunities now the two that I mentioned radiation technologist and dental hygienist those are kind of like associate level degrees in that they would take around two to three years but one thing that's great about health degrees is they're very flexible in that there are many different options for you so for instance if you wanted like a four-year degree you could get your BSN that and become a nurse if you wanted a six-year degree you could get into something like physician assistant or now known as physician associate and of course the main reason that people regretted the degree was the low job satisfaction and so that's the reason that I always try to warn people who want to go into health care that a lot of the time you are going to be around people who are sick right they're having one of the worst days of their life they're probably also very frustrated with our medical system which is totally understandable so you really do have to be someone who has thick skin if you work in a lot of different health care settings you always have to maintain professionalism but with that being said for the right type of personality it's extremely rewarding because you are going to help people get better right you're going to help them improve their health now the next one on the list is also very similar it's also medical related and that is going to be number four health administration and assisting now again they are basically clustering together a bunch of different health care related degrees this one is usually a little bit more on the leadership or management side of things but only 17.95% of people regretted getting this degree and again same reason low job satisfaction but again that's going to be extremely person to person if you're the type of personality that works really well within health care you are going to love your job so especially when it comes to a health care degree and really this goes for all degrees and this is something I've said in many of my videos it's worth it to plan ahead do your research talk to people in the career you're trying to go for in many cases you can even shadow them so you can even just watch what they do on a day to day basis but health care professions in general are known for being extremely stable right so not only are health care professions in general growing at 15% over the next 10 years which is the best out of all different types of professions out there even better than technology but on top of that just from more of a practical standpoint let's say the world like really goes to hell in a hand basket like it's almost like an apocalyptic type situation health care professionals are still going to have their jobs you're never going to be able to automate like a nurse's job or a doctor's job and on top of that even if we go into a situation where civilization collapses we're almost back in the dark ages there's still going to be doctors and nurses and people that help doctors out people are always going to get sick unfortunately people are always going to die and they're going to need people to help them people to take care of them and on top of that health care professions do tend to be pretty high paying as well so the median annual wage for all health care professionals is $68,000 that was 2019 and for all occupations it's $39,000 right so it's almost double the median annual wage of all occupations and keep in mind this is including people who work at kind of like a two-year associate level people who work at a four-year level etc so there are many good jobs out there at pretty much every single level which is not the same for all different types of degrees number three on the list is going to be engineering and this one came in at 15.91% of people regret getting their degree however the reason is the best jobs require advanced degrees now I do think there might be a little bit of bias here I agree with where it's placed but I think there might be a little bit of bias almost like survivorship bias because a lot of people end up not making it through engineering so the people who do make it through even though it's incredibly hard are going to feel very proud of themselves because they really did accomplish something engineering degrees are no joke when you look at the statistics the last 40 years the highest paying types of degrees overall are engineering degrees and it's not even close now I think in the next 40 years I wouldn't be surprised if technology degrees actually outpace engineering degrees or catch up to them but I'm not an astronomist I can't say for sure engineering degrees are a very solid option you know you look at the last census engineering degrees over the last 40 years people make 3.5 million dollars on average over a lifetime compared to 2.4 million for all other types of majors it's by far number one the second one on the list is computers and math that's 3.1 million I would not be surprised if that one actually catches up to engineering over the next 40 years now one thing that's great about engineering is not only is it good if you graduate with an engineering degree and then become an engineer but it's pretty much good no matter where you end up going right so you can graduate with an engineering degree become a software developer you can graduate with an engineering degree go into business it's a very flexible degree and on top of that you end up earning a lot of money pretty much no matter what direction you go right so we see in the census here people who graduate with an engineering degree and then they went into sales and related still made 3.3 million dollars over a lifetime even the ones who went into art which you know traditionally obviously isn't one of the highest paying made 3 million dollars over a lifetime which is way above average now you could argue it's correlation or causation you know you could say that people who are smart enough to become engineers are also people who are more likely to make a lot of money so it really doesn't matter what degree or field they go into but from my experience with people I've worked with and a lot of things that I've seen companies just love hiring engineers right they know that they're getting a very smart very hardworking person and so even if it's for a job that's kind of unrelated they know that this person is going to be able to figure it out right so like I said in the beginning engineering very very difficult degree it's going to really stress you out it's probably going to be the hardest thing that you have done up to this point in your life but the next one on the list is for people who maybe want to take it a little more easy and have a better college experience that's number two on the list business degrees right so business degrees only about 15.5% of people regret getting their business degree and the main reason is because they're too general now business degrees get a lot of flak a lot of people make fun of them say it's super easy and all that sort of thing I did take quite a few business classes back in college and I can confirm that they are much easier than like my hard science classes at least for me but I think just generally speaking they are you know on the side of being a little easier I also lived in a scholarship hall of 50 guys there were probably about five engineers and like five to ten people who majored in business and I can tell you for sure the people who majored in business were partying and having fun all the time and the engineers were studying all the time business degrees are also extremely flexible not only in the degree that you can get so for instance you can get a business degree and very easily pair it with a different degree so you could double major in business and technology or business and engineering business and math etc they pair very very well with pretty much any other type of degree out there but on top of that once you get the business degree once you graduate you can work in almost any industry for almost any company and there's a lot of different jobs that are going to be open for you now I did the video on the degrees that create the most millionaires and business degrees made up six out of the top ten right so engineering was number one technically but they kind of grouped all the engineering degrees together whereas they separated the business degrees and business made six out of the top ten so you could argue that business degrees are even better than engineering degrees when it comes to improving your chances of making you a millionaire and I think one of the reasons for that is because if you get a business degree not only do you increase your chances of starting a successful business but on top of that I think it teaches you a lot of soft financial skills at an early age like saving investing and financial planning right so there's a lot of benefits to becoming a business major I think they get a bad rap but I've done many videos on this channel where I you know break down the statistics and business majors tend to do very well now again it could be partly correlation or causation or both but if you're going by the numbers business majors do tend to do very well next on the list number one no surprise to anyone who's watched my channel it's going to be computer science and mathematics 12.78% of people who graduated with this degree regretted it and the main reason was that it's very stressful right so computer science and mathematics are going to be pretty hard compared to your average degree but it's one of those skills that's incredibly hot right now like learning how to code is just it's one of the best possible things that you can learn to do at this particular time in history right and zip recruiter also has this other thing called the skills index that I've talked about on this channel very useful tool and if you look at this index there's so many different technology and computer programming related skills that are considered to be the most valuable skills that you can learn right so software engineering is number one analytical skills is in the top 10 net programming skills software development application development web services skills information technology kind of related software development python programming skills computer science right so there's just so many skills that are related to learning how to do computer programming software development etc and so like 15 out of the top 20 or so you can basically relate all of them back to computer science and it looks like the way that the world's going with automation and optimizing processes that this is just going to become more and more valuable into the future and when you look at the statistics it just looks fantastic right so technology one of the best possible industries that you can go into a lot of the technology companies not only are they known for paying people really well but they're also known for giving them ridiculous benefits not only stock options you know but sometimes it's like 401k matching up to like 18% but on top of that they also make the person's quality of life ridiculously good if you look at glass door and you see the companies that consistently rate the highest when it comes to quality of life and how happy people are how their job satisfaction is you're going to see so many technology related companies and on top of that I think this might be one of the most underrated things and it's something that I don't really mention all that often but basically if you think about skills that you can leverage yourself with there's not that many out there just a few off the top of my head sales and marketing right that's a skill where you can actually leverage yourself where one person can conceivably reach like a million people another one would be a video right making videos like this or creating content so types of technology related communication that's another skill where you can leverage you know one person to reach possibly millions of people and then another one is computer programming learning how to code you could legitimately write a computer program create maybe some type of software or something along those lines that could reach millions of people all on your own you could create a website or a technology that millions of different people use and you're just one person doing it and the truth is there just aren't that many skills out there where you could do that and the few skills that are out there have insane amounts of leverage all right so that's all I have for this video guys hope it helped you a little bit um and trying to figure out what degree path you want to go for if you haven't done it already check out my 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Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening. Thank you for tuning in and welcome to the first anniversary episode of Mentor Docs It's been a year since we started this program to offer career tips to exchange program alumni and all who are interested in proving themselves and their communities Including our alumni in Bangladesh who've organized a watch party for this event. Hello everyone My name is Asha Bay and I'm joining you from Washington, DC and the Office of Alumni Affairs at the US Department of State Our office opens the door to alumni networking, professional development and grant opportunities We welcome alumni of all US government educational and cultural exchange programs Today we're excited to welcome a very special guest for our anniversary show Marie Royce, the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs ECA at the US Department of State She's also an award-winning exchange alumna of the American Council of Young Political Leaders Program ACYPL Assistant Secretary Royce will be sharing her secrets for success Along with her experience in the private sector working for Fortune 500 companies and as a small business owner Before we get into our conversation with Assistant Secretary Royce, we want to hear from you, our online viewers Send us your comments and questions in the Facebook comment section of this video Now let's meet and hear from Assistant Secretary Royce. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you, Asha, for inviting me I just want to say thank you for your enthusiasm And for the enthusiasm for all the participants here watching today also to those in Bangladesh again Thanks for doing the watch party. I really appreciate it I just want to say again hello and as Assistant Secretary of State for the educational and cultural affairs I'm very delighted to join you for the first anniversary of Mentor Talks. It's a real honor to speak to you We developed Mentor Talks as a way to connect you to mentors who can share their stories and also their life lessons and To enhance your professional development. I want to just let you know that I strongly believe in mentorship During my career. I've been very fortunate and to have several people in my life that have been mentors to me And many I can really call mentors these people have really helped me shape my career And they've given me advice in both good times and also bad times Those people I really appreciate because of the role that mentors have played in my life I've launched several mentoring programs in several places where I've worked and I've also mentored very many people Myself and it's really a way to give back. So I really want you to think about that It's important to build your own network and I'm a big believer in the power of networking and so for those that are on the Online today your network is very important I find that people will often help you and be your champions and again, you can't forget about persistence That's incredibly important. I want to share with you a little story about one of my professors who nominated me for an award She actually nominated me four times four years in a row for the distinguished alumni award at my university Unfortunately, I I didn't win and she had to do it four times because I didn't win the first three And I won that fourth time. Why did I win because she believed in me? She never stopped nominating me and because I believed in myself I never saw it as a negative I was just so happy to have the opportunity to be nominated and submit my application And so again, I think for you to be successful in life You need to surround yourself with the best people and of course never give up So throughout my career fostering diversity and inclusion has been one of my top priorities When I worked in that private sector at Marriott International I helped get companies owned by women and minorities included in the business supply chain And in my job today at ECA I helped to ensure our programs reach talented people regardless of their background I'd like to say that ECA moves people to move ideas and I also say and moves values We believe that there's no better way for americans and people from other cultures to learn about each other's cultures create friendships from these different countries and develop skills than through these exchanges As assistant secretary of state, I'm very proud to represent a bureau that has a diverse group of employees and a diverse group of programs One program I want to talk to you about today is called the tech women program Tech women matches young leaders in the STEM fields with mentors who can help them achieve their goals And they also change their communities And that's just one of a hundred examples And one thing I will share is that I've had the good fortune of meeting many of you when I've been out traveling And also I've met these tech women and tech mentors when they've come into washington So that's been very exciting for me and during my time as ECA's assistant secretary Again seeing how you're moving ideas and moving values. It's been a real pleasure Again, I've seen the impact of our programs up close and personal from my visits with alumni around the world And I want to tell you about one of my really memorable visits and of course There's even a video online you can watch about my visit to liberia and I met yama zawu She's an entrepreneur and you can even see it in the video who runs the colorful wash wash textile craft store She got her business up and running with support and advice from a mentor That was a peace corps volunteer that helped her create her business and mentor her And again, I've also experienced ECA programs myself as noted by asha in the opening I'm along myself Of the american council of young political leaders program That's a program through the us department of state for leaders from age 25 to 40 And I went out as a delegate to poland and hungry And then I will also add that I served on the board So it was very very powerful experience for me From sales to telecommunications To teaching at a university to volunteering. I've had many experiences during my career So I want to share with you a career is not just one thing It's a number of different experiences that you develop For building on your values and your interests and your skills I think the biggest thing is that I'm not afraid to try new things Right, you've heard of all the different things I've done in the different industries I'm not afraid to try new things and either should you It's really exciting to be here today. And I'm even trying this Speaking with you. So I just want to say I hope you'll see that my diverse experience will answer many of your questions today about how I've built my career And I want to help you really reach your full potential And I want to share with you that your potential is really truly unlimited And again, I'd like to hear from you. What are your career goals as you build on your exchange experience? And again, I want to say that I'm very proud to To say that you're all fellow exchange alumni just like I am As far as you are with me. So that's pretty exciting And I really am looking very forward to the conversation with you today Again, it's a real honor to be included today This bureau is so mean meaningful to me as an exchange alum. I couldn't Think of a better position to be in but again I'm just thrilled to be here and hear from all of you and about your questions about mentoring and your career So, thank you very much for having me and asha. I'm going to now turn it over to you for the first question. I believe right? Yes, thank you Thank you It's like assistant secretary Royce. It's such an honor to have you with us on the show And those are two great tips, you know never never give up and And try new things. I found that those have really work in a career So before we get to questions from our viewers, we'd like to ask how did your acy lpl experience shape your The career that you've built. Okay. Well, thank you. Well, I want to say that is The acy pl experience has made a big impact on my career Uh, I will also add when we talk to interns at the U.S. Department of State People ask us kind of how we started up kind of our thinking about what we wanted to do And before the internet we did a lot of what we call reading books. How exciting And I read about international and and I actually wrote down my goal, which is to travel internationally I didn't actually travel until I was 25 internationally and I paid for it myself I really wanted to travel international and see these places I read about so I actually get got more and more prepared To do that. I went to school for it I I asked for responsibility as far as my jobs with the corp companies. I I lot I asked for projects And and the fact that I was nominated to have an international experience as an exchange participant was very powerful to me I was on a group of delegates that were from three different political parties And the fact that we are from different states in the united states getting to travel into two countries that I was very interested in seeing One of the things we did was we actually rotated the leadership role every day, which was fantastic for me I think I was a little afraid at first But what happened was the day that I was in charge I remember we were in Warsaw, Poland and I was on television and making an introduction and speaking to the mayor But I have to say that here I am today speaking to all of you And I look back at that and say that I was so proud of myself to be able to do that and represent the group And ensuring that everybody was brought together in that experience So it made such a big impact on me that I at I really wanted to volunteer And I would say that's a very important thing is to volunteer your your service to to give others the opportunity So I actually was on the board and I thought that that would be a way to help Ensure that other young leaders were able to participate in in the organization as well One of the things I used to do also was also do fundraising to try to help create more scholarships and more opportunities So again, it made a big impact on me And this program is also part of the large portfolio of exchange programs of eca Never did I expect back then that I would be responsible for all these exchange programs I in cultural professional educational, etc in sports all part of the bureau Of the eca educational cultural affairs. So thanks for that question Asha Sure, you're welcome So now we have one from a viewer on facebook who asks What are some ways to meet people and make connections new connections during this time? Well, that's a good question. Uh I think that that's not as easy as it normally would from the face-to-face standpoint But I will say that I participated in some virtual events in fact, uh, recently I was able to be part of a cooking event which was a cultural event between the united states another Latin-american country and what happened was actually the small group of us were able to interact And also talked to the chef, which I thought was really great I would also add that you have the power to actually organize your own events Uh, I would when I worked for a major corporation, uh, I'll tell you that it was proctor and gamble I went I want to have a global, uh opportunity So I went and worked at the headquarters for two years I worked in california and then I went to the global headquarters and I didn't know anyone And at first I was a little sad about it because I said I really didn't know anybody But then I decided to create my own group. I said well, why I have the power to do this So I created a group called more than lunch more than lunch everyone I only knew about five people but everybody that had to bring another person So one of the people I remember was the person that was the editor of the magazine at work I thought oh, she'd be a really great person inviting to the group So I asked her she'd be part of the group and then I went down to the librarian because we had a library at the Headquarters and I asked the librarian which whether she'd be part of the group So every month we actually had speakers. Uh, we would actually go places Together and we and each time people were bringing more and more people to the group So I would say that you could have the power to do that yourself If you have five friends, they can bring another friend and even when I first moved to washington I had something called a friend razor and I knew five people And we ended up getting 300 And those five people were allowed to invite their friends. So I would meet new people So again, I want to say it's not easy to do but I think that you can also do it Um and and also participate with activities like this So these are just a few ideas. Uh, again, um, I know we all have the power to, uh, you know, communicate and get together And um, you have the ability to do that instead of I think feeling That we have no power over it I think it goes back to kind of who you are in your career is that you have the power to do it And I'll add one more thing. Um, when I was teaching at the university us I remember working at the headquarters at marriott and People would go to lunch And I was like, well, they didn't invite me Uh, but it wasn't that they're really trying not to include me. They weren't even thinking about me They were thinking about going to lunch So I ended up deciding one day that I would just kind of jump out over there out in the hall and say Can I join you and you know what they said? Yeah, sure Not complicated Right That is really part of the thing I would say is to ask for what you want Uh, be be the creative force in your own life to do Uh, to make make change and to be part of to you know, if you want something you should try to create it Uh, so I would just say if you want to be included asked to be included If you want to meet more people, uh, maybe you can help get asked some of your friends to be part of it Be thinking about different talks. You could be part of I mean even in social distancing. I think that you Can come up with ways to do it. I would also say even on the uh, linkedin I I thought that was great that alumni office created the new linkedin Organization you could also communicate on linkedin share articles. So these are just some ideas Yeah, those are great ideas. I really like the uh, the friends the friend, you know, the inviting the friends Friends of friends Yeah, more than lunch because uh, again, that was like my friend razor Where I didn't know anyone but five people so they they had to help me make new friends Whereas and more the lunch, uh, everyone had to bring a friend So I think that's a good way to uh, really kind of get a group together to kind of get a start um, and then maybe having a topic or Uh, rotating it every month to have a each person have responsible ability You could even do something culturally which would be fun Uh, yeah, so these are just a few ideas. Thank you. Exactly. You can even like try to do that on zoom Yes, like friends. Yes. Yeah Yes, all right. So we have one from Karen who is an astronomy professor in Rio de Janeiro She says that In stem fields black women are very few among professors and researchers What advice do you have to build an effective mentoring program to target students that are oftentimes left behind? Yeah, that's a good question. Um, thanks for your question. Uh, I would say that Uh, you're right about that. That's not always easy. We actually at the u.s. Department of State created a program Little about four years ago We had a movie that was really great that we loved, uh, was through fox, which now is disney Always called uh hidden figures this movie about three african-american women from nasa That actually were amazing mathematicians and we ended up creating an exchange program We had 50 embassies each nominating one woman And the women ended up coming they now come three years in a row now going on four They came to nasa that came to the state department. They went out to the movie studios One of the women I will just say she went into wikipedia and she saw that they're only about eight women scientists And she's like eight. There's so many more people So what she did was she decided every single day she would do research And now I think there's about 800, uh, women scientists that are listed wikipedia. So I would say again, uh, It's the power of the network. I mean in this example, none of these women had ever partly met any, um They were a diverse group of women Many of them had not been part of a network before and and we helped facilitate and create that network I would add that you have the ability to try to do that. Maybe there's even a way to use if you're, uh Through your university that you went through or even where you work today There might be a way to convene when we talk about mentoring at the beginning of my career Um, we there was a group of women and minorities at the company that said well, we didn't really feel we were being mentored So we were we asked to be able to create create a mentoring program And we actually did we actually created a program and the company allowed us to do it And we actually also create another program called the buddy program We actually just did this at the um US department state in our bureau Where we had three new groups come into it and I asked people if they'd be buddies to the new people coming in and they actually created a buddy relationship where they took them to lunch and they Basically, uh gave them advice and was uh at first we were like well, this sounds kind of silly But it really was a good way to help on board people So again, I would recommend that um if you don't see what you want and then we at the US department state have the alumni connections and I would add that Perhaps there's a way that we can help you in brazil With the alumni that are there especially from the stem area. Um, and you know to help you kind of Create this uh cohort of uh, let's say diverse, uh women in the area of stem But but we'd love to help you with that. So it's a good question. Thank you Yeah, thanks for answering So we have another one from facebook uh samshad asks in a disastrous environment of pandemic What opportunities do you think women should seek out in a developing country like bangladesh? Well, thank you. Um Well, I would just say that uh, you know, I was reading I actually gave it remarks about uh, Bangladesh yesterday actually And it was about a person that actually created face masks with their tech textile company and they gave them out for free Which is pretty incredible. I would just say that you actually to think about what ways you can be of service to others Uh, I would I'm sure there might be people. Uh, that are older that have um difficulty. Let's say for example Uh, even going to the market In our area, we have something called next door where people can Put down if they need help and other people can try to provide help I would say that you can see this as an opportunity to serve other people and develop a network Of people to uh and also think if there's any ways of innovative Use of materials in the case of the alumni story yesterday They are actually we're using um environmentally friendly materials that were recycled So I I would just say that's might be something that you'd be interested in doing and thinking about what What are ways that we can kind of take this up? pandemic and Make something innovative and do things that have never been done before So I that's what I would advise That's great advice. Thank you sure So we have another question from nico ragua from I hope i'm pronouncing this right uh, xayomara She says I'm a social studies teacher and would like to know how we can build mentor programs for younger students in high school Well, that's a good question. Um, here's how I would do it and this is actually my secret formula um, I would say when I created mentoring programs. I actually created a A little uh, I asked we asked people that wanted to be a mentor and if we asked them if they wanted to be a protege When I started my career, I decided I wanted to be a protege Meaning a mentee because I didn't feel like I was mentored as much and I so I got to be So you could decide you could say I want to formally be a mentor or a protege In the case of my university what I did is I set it up for juniors at the university When I was part of the full-time faculty I asked the juniors Who would like to be part of this and they're about 100 at the university And then I actually found mentors that said they would mentor them We created a form which was kind of a form where people said that they what they were interested in Um, and and consequently Both the mentors and the protege and then we created a committee that would do the matching So at the university I had several different I had a the president of the student group was on my committee. I had two top alumni I had two different board members I had some faculty and I was on the committee So we actually took the the protege and the mentors we decided Kind of who would be a good match and we had a kickoff event and then we said kind of the rules of the road And we everybody got to meet everybody and then I served as the ombudsman, which means I actually help people through that process So some people said well, it doesn't matter if like if I'm a man in this case at the university If there's a man that is a successful businessman He said well, I don't mind if I have a young woman student or a male student So then what would happen is let's say they were matched with a female They would contact me and they say well now what do I do now? I have a female student So I don't know what to do and I would say well, listen You've got you read books perhaps you could share a book Uh and give that to the student and you could talk about the book together Or you could invite the person to a training session and there's all kinds of things So bottom line and then also even in school you could actually create activities that the protege's And the mentors can do together So bottom line is that's how we constructed it It ended up that a lot of the students ended up getting jobs after they graduated because they actually built those mentoring relationships and then In my example when I was a protege it really helped me with my career I learned from the mentor who was a female that I had She actually asked for what she wanted to me. That was really shocking. I said wow I thought people would know I was doing a good job She said you have to let them know that you're doing a good job. You have to tell them what you want So I think the bottom line is uh, I think actually creating a formalized program is really what I would do I wouldn't I would ask people if they'd like to be part of it Mentors and protege's create a matching form create a mini do matching and kind of rules of engagement How do you do it and then do a kickoff event with a with the matching? That's what we did and when I worked at proctor and gamble when we did it. That's what I did when I was at the university Since I was working in hospitality. I'll just share the I went to disney which was in hospitality It's in southern california. I said would you do the kickoff event? And so they said yes So they the vice president disney actually served as one of the mentors and she did the event And we had a hundred protege's and hundred mentors. So I hope that gives you an idea of something how you could do it But uh, I think it was a incredible Program so much so that I've replicated it three times I also did it. I'd worked on afghanistan when I was doing telecommunications and I worked with the department of defense and the state department and I tried to help of Uh individuals that were in afghanistan because they would come to us and say well We want to do what you're doing. We want to Work in telecommunications and how do we get how do we do it? So I thought well wouldn't it be great and it was the in those days the early days of skype Right, so I said well, maybe we could create these scribe relationships and then have matching so Anyway, that that is really what I'd highly recommend that you formally put it together Wow, you're very creative Well, I think you have to do it because it doesn't always happen In other words people have to be motivated to want to do it So like the lamentors have to want to do it and the protégés have to want to do it And then they they get together a minimum part of the rules for us was to try to connect at least once a month You know, whether by phone or skype or in person And I think if you create something that people really want to be part of then and it's really a volunteer thing Now with students I allowed them to be to do it because if they wanted to For June for kids that are younger like high school. Maybe they get extra credit for doing it Maybe you could do that or come up with ways to incentivize them because it's really a really positive thing for them Exactly. Yeah Okay, so I think we have we have a lot more questions coming up We're gonna try to get to some all we'll go try to get as many as we can Center writes i'm currently working in higher education, but i'm hoping to pivot to exchange work in the future In your opinion, how will cova 19 impact exchange programs moving forward? Oh, thank you for asking I well, I think there's there continues to be a big future for exchanges I believe strongly in the people to people connections I also believe strongly in student mobility, which you're working in the university We advocate strongly for people to come to the united states to go to school We also advocate for students in the united states to go across to other countries You know, we even have programs where Uh, if even if the people are not going physically, we've been doing programs like we have the stevens initiative Which is to the middle east where we have Almost 50 states that students from seventh grade to senior college who are connected to students in the middle east Working on projects like the american university in cairo Is connected with the arizona state and they're working on a solar project I've gone out in the field and i've seen these students and met with them Whether they're in virginia or in jordan or in egypt. So it's it's really dynamic. So I I know I definitely do not Believe in any way will exchanges us stop happening I believe now with the cova that there's ways to reach more people. I think we can Actually Engage people even more. I think face-to-face And and virtual is really terrific Um, you know, but even if there's limitations and some people will never have an opportunity for Face-to-face, I'd say that the experiences that are virtual could be very rich And I saw that with talking to the students both in the united states As an example when I went to virginia I got to meet the students in jordan who are up on the screen And they they had an incredibly real experience So when I went to cairo and saw that those students and they were connected to our students in arizona And the most recently in jordan our students that I've talked to These were their students in jordan and they were connected our students in iowa They used slack. They improved their english. I thought that was fantastic. They collaborated. They did teamwork And they in this case in jordan. They were working on a global sustainability project So I know I don't see uh state is going away I think what covet has done has helped us to be even more innovative to think of ways to reach more people Again, I think uh supplementing uh, both virtual And in person, but I think uh, again, I here's here. We are we might not have had this metrotox today I think uh in the scale that we're doing it if we didn't have people really focused on using kind of the technology tools You know, I want to add one more thing when I saw the tech women Uh, you know, I told them maybe they would be some the ones that actually invent something in the future That's not invented yet. And but I I'm going to tell you a little story. Uh, out in Uzbekistan. We had a advisor uh And he worked at the state department, uh since the 70s And he went out back to Uzbekistan again And he said to them, how do you feel that you don't really have a beach? You know, you're kind of a landlocked country And this woman said I don't feel that way at all. She said the internet is my sea Isn't that beautiful internet is so when he wrote me an email from tash kent That was the title the internet is my sea So I say, you know, the internet didn't exist when I was uh young and reading books And I used to write letters to people and have pen pals because I wanted to meet people But today we've got wonderful ways to connect and here we are. So again to you at the university level, I say Uh, this is a good way to go and I'd also add that you should do volunteerism I think I was part of my bio, but I've been on over 20 nonprofit boards Uh, I served on the board at the university before I was a professor there I I served on the board of two exchange programs Uh, so that's an example. So it really readied me for this job I'd say if you have something that you want to be part of think of ways that you could volunteer or be Out of board or committee and then you get the experience. So then, uh, that's how you'll be able to leverage your skills And then if you're thinking, oh, I don't really know too much about technology, for example I'd say well get yourself kind of in that space You know at the university I actually was shocked when I first came in How much people were using the uh internet? And I actually decided I would learn how to actually create my own webpage with the with the Tech people and I actually did I created my own website. I learned how to do it all I got the software and you know So the thing is if you don't know how to do it like figure out how to do it Figure out what you need what skills you need and uh, I'm sure people will be there to help support you And also lastly, I would say I mentioned this earlier when I was talking to asha If you are trying to learn what to do go to the people that know how to do it Like when I went to teach I never had done that before right I served on the board So I went standing on other professor's classes to learn how they they taught And then I decided what would my style be Also, I also met with my former predecessors as assistant secretaries to learn how they were assistant secretary What types of things that they worked on so every Position I've had I've actually learned and and sat down and had a cup of coffee or had a call And I would add that yes, what you should do is whatever field you're interested in Try to figure out who's doing it and how to be part of it and also be a volunteer to get the skills Yeah advice. Thank you Sure. So I know we're kind of like Running close to time. Um, do you have time for some more questions? Sure. Okay um, we have pew chowdery from bangladesh who is a uh Community college initiative exchange alumna. That's why yes His question is how was the transition period when you decided to change your careers? And how did you manage those challenges? Well, well, that's a wonderful question uh, you know I think this is a question that everybody can answer here You could do one thing all your life and you could be an expert But when you change industries, you're uh, actually it's a big it's very hard So what happens is that you have to be already prepared for that? Um, when I went into telecommunications, I had never done it. I wanted to do it by the way I always had goals So that was one of my goals was to get into the tech sector Uh, okay. I was successful getting into the tech sector. Uh, I went to a conference with 5 000 people I didn't know anyone I was my first conference. I thought oh my gosh What did I do? And my analogy at the time I still remember is Uh, I feel like I'm a kindergartner on the first day of school Okay, because I didn't know anyone and I said, you know what? I'm responsible for building my network I made this decision and I went around and I went to every single booth and went around talk to people And then there was an evening event and I remember I ended up going to the evening event with all these people on the bus To this activity was uh, actually kind of a country western Called hay ride where you go out and have barbecue And I remember everybody knew everybody each other But I didn't know anyone and I went around and shook hands with people and some of those people This is almost 20 years later. I still am in touch with because I I I really Made myself get out there. So it it will not be easy Um, and I will say that that is what uh, you know, it's it's changed But I I really believe that that's something I want to do Um, even when I went in I I for example, I would set up meetings with the engineers and scientists From the telecom their bell apps people We have noble prize winners and I would get it on the phone And I said for them to teach me everything they could about certain technologies And I would set up my own training sessions So to learn and and you know, you start with Harley knowing anything and then at p and g I worked on a project with these engineers on packaging And I ended up doing this global program on the environment and I was the I didn't really know all about packaging and and post-consumer recycle content And so I went to all the packaging meetings I ended up getting named and who's who in packaging and setting up these goals for the proctor and gamble company and Measurements all around the world coming from and then I would go to engineers and actually ask them to teach me everything they knew So I would say that's what you have to do. You have to be open-minded ready to learn and be very positive about Kind of taking it all in Thank you You're welcome. Yes Okay, we have another question from a viewer who asks what are some ways to stay up to date and keep your skills fresh Well, I would say one of the ways to stay up to date and keep your skills fresh is to Make sure you're always doing things like learning online doing things that you would be actually setting up Events like this where you're actually kind of working with other people or going to training sessions Another thing is actually taking classes You know, I went back to school for my master's degree as a I finished when I was 35 So I actually decided to do that and it was not easy But again, I would say that you're you can always take classes at In school or on the internet or actually even call someone and ask them to take you through A certain program and I'm always reading. I think that's a very important thing Whether it's a magazine like for example, if I want to read about architecture I would actually read an architectural magazine So there's nothing that it's going to limit you as far as keeping your skills fresh And the other thing I'd add is that you all You all have a network of people, you know that, you know, and maybe those people can teach you something One day I did something on LinkedIn where I wanted to learn something Texting and I actually put my question out I said, can you teach anyone here know about this certain technology? And actually within an hour there are 10 people that replied that they did And I actually set up a meeting with a couple of those people to learn about the certain technology So I think that you certainly could do this and that's one way you can keep your skills fresh Yes, those are great ideas Yeah, thank you And so You know to speaking of going to graduate school What would be your number one tip for those trying to start or advance their career in today's business environment? I would say that Well, I have a background in business First of all, I have two undergraduate degrees in business and I have an MBA And then I taught business at the university and I've had my own business So I would say some of the fundamental things about being in business is that you should understand that it's a It's basically a skill set Like for example One of the reasons a lot of businesses fail is people don't really know too much about business, but they might just have a good idea So think about this for a minute Like if somebody was going to go operate and and go in the operating room as a doctor I would never think that I could go in there and start operating because I don't know anything I didn't go to medical medical school But a lot of people say oh, I can do a business because I have a really great idea So there's a lot of fundamentals and one of the fundamentals is is to create a business plan That's really one of the fundamental things that you do and there's a young man here There's a very successful business here for shoes and purses that makes leather Products and fixes them and I actually came to talk to him about it And I actually get my my purse I got repaired there and I talked to him about creating a business plan And you know, he said he said I had my business and it failed twice And somebody said to me have you ever thought about doing a business plan? And he said I I don't even know what a business plan is So he ended up he ended up paying for himself to go to a class on business planning And he now has a very successful business today. So I would say that's a very strong fundamental How to do marketing, you know, another thing would be even kind of raising capital also, uh, I would say also creating a Legal framework for yourself to make sure that you're doing everything properly If you set up a little business, sometimes you can even have advisors You know a lot of a lot of these have little boards You could have advisors to kind of advise you or your your friends what can give you input But I definitely think there's lots of opportunities during this Time to come up with new ideas. I remember when years ago, it's giving an idea, but it's so amazing Back like 20 years ago when I'd be on the road I saw in business. I saw we think, oh, wouldn't it be so great if I could have a Assistant that I could just Send things to that could be virtual when I needed things and so at that time there was no such thing Then I met a woman who actually said I created a company called virtual assistants And I thought this is great. This is exactly what I need Like if I'm in a remote town and I need something I could send it over and she could do it And I thought well, that was kind of an example of an idea, right? And then the other thing about it is I I worked on a We're small business owners When I worked for the Marriott corporation as an example We tried very hard to get women and minorities into the supply chain So we would actually try to help train them and created a network to help them get into the company Then I also was part of an organization which actually tried to help the women From different try to get into different companies. So I just want to share that There's a lot of different groups to help other women. You can learn with small business, but there are There's principles that you should know as a business person And then you could always try to if you already know all those things is to think how can I take it to a higher level? Going back to that I'll also even say having a mentor There was a woman I met they'll never forget this who was her art was in 20 stores That I went to is a beautiful linen store chain And I saw her work and was so beautiful and I said she said I I'm the artist for all the stores And I said well, how did you ever do that? She said well I used to paint in a small way And I had a mentor that told me I had to paint larger and he actually was Mentored me and he helped me and I ended At contacting the chain and asking if they would buy my art and she ended up getting it into all the 20 stores So I thought that was pretty fascinating But any any bit any idea you can and I think having a mentor is a great way to go You know whether whatever that idea is and then also having a solid plan behind it I think you've been a great mentor today. Oh, thank you. Yes, and thank you for your time Oh, yeah, I think uh, yeah, we're a little bit over time. So I think we probably should wrap things up Okay, I just want to thank you again very much assistant secretary voice for being with us today And a big thank you to you or online viewers for participating Um, I think we need to keep uh these things in mind that secretary assistant secretary voice is telling us about never giving up uh, don't be afraid and Try new things Also, you know build your network Reach out to people look for mentors And have a plan and uh always can try to fill a need Yes, I think all great tips. Yeah, those are all really great and uh, you know, everyone here that's watching today has a unique Experience that you've had the opportunity to be an exchange participant Um, and I would just say that that's really a transformative thing Uh, and I just want to say that I feel very fortunate that I've had that opportunity And actually be able to speak to each one of you today I I believe strongly that you can do anything you want to do Uh, you have to just one of the things is just to be clear on what you want and tell people what you want I I think that's the thing that sometimes people don't reach their goals because they don't really know what their Goals are they never really wrote them down Like my goal at age 18 was to do international right and I wrote that down and here I am doing international Right, so but I really put a plan in place To do that and so I would just say think about what you like doing and and if you know the other thing is you don't have to Just do one thing. Maybe we talked about career I've done different things right, so I've done So that you know, I've worked in government. I've done nonprofit. I've done business All those things are all part of a career They are yeah, you've built you've built on it each year each step is built on your career every step of the way Yes, that's right. Yes, right. Okay. Thank you Sure, you're welcome And for the for for our online viewers if you're interested in learning about are you interested in learning about more opportunities for exchange alumni You can visit our website at alumni.state.gov and follow us on facebook twitter and linkedin And so with that we're going to wrap up the show. Thanks for watching and see you all for our next Mapping me. Oh, you're welcome. All right. Goodbye to all the alumni Thank you for being here and also the Bangladesh. Thanks for having the watch party, but to everyone here. Thank you and asha Thanks for being the moderator today. I really appreciate it. Okay. Congratulations on the one year anniversary Thank you. All right. Bye. Bye. Thank you


I'm here with Massimil Poridoro who is visiting me from Italy. That's the other side of the world you see, because this is for a greater deal. Look at your map, you'll understand if you look at it. And the linking ring trick is very famous. There are many, many books written about this. It's a classic trick in the conjuring trade. Massimil, you have a ring there. Would you hold it up like this for me? Hold it that way, go to the book like that, that's fine. Now, I've got to find a soft spot here. That's about right, just about there, I think. Alright, now, that's a soft spot. Oops, and it goes right through as you see, then it comes right back out again. It's astonishing, and these are made of magnesium, you see, from end to end. This end to that end and around there. Just try it one more time, both hands. Now, concentrate. No? Of course, right through, right back out again. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the marvelous linking ring effect. This is only one aspect of it, but we've got hours and hours of work to do as you can see. Thank you very much, thank you very much. Oh, that was great.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2019 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box XLT FX4 is stock number 14233Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used heavy duty truck headquarters. This 2019 Ford F-250 has the 6.2 liter V8 gas engine, believe it's 385 horsepower, it's paired up with the 6-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside, underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood, show you all the options, and just give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Magnetic gray is the color, I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, consider subscribing to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube, and stay current on our ever-changing and vast inventory. This one comes with the 18-inch chromed alloy wheels, and it has brand new Lofen X-Fit AT tires, LT27570R18s, and we put these on in our safety inspection, still has little wear knobs on there. Frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. This is a two-owner clean title history, clean car facts out of Oregon and North Carolina. Front fenders in great shape, now you might see a line on here, that's from the 3M rock guard that is on the front fenders, as well as the hood on this truck. Front bumper and lower valance are in excellent condition. No dents or dings, no scuffs or scrapes on that valance, and you do get the chrome tow hooks, this one does have the chrome appearance package, you get the chrome trimmed grille as well. As far as the hood goes, no major dents or dings on there, and any imperfections that you see are from that 3M rock guard doing its job, keeping it looking good. Passenger side front fender is in great shape as well, no dents or dings on there, and the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes, looks really good. Magnetic gray metallic, one of my favorite grays on the Ford trucks, has a lot of metal flake in it, it's a little bit darker than the new carbonized gray, but looks really good. Paints in really nice shape on this truck, as you go down this side of this 2019 Ford F250, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at, before you even get here, so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. You can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at, and if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you back wheels in nice shape as well, and the back tires are brand new too. Framing underbody looks really good, definitely advantageous to get a truck from either Oregon or North Carolina, very little corrosion under there, lower rockers and cab corners look great, and it does come with the nice factory chrome step bars. This one also has the FX4 off-road suspension package. You get the chrome tipped exhaust part of that chrome appearance group. Rear bumper is in great shape, no dents or dings on there. It does have the backup parking sensors, full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring, and the tailgate is in excellent shape as well. Didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Obviously the elephant in the room here is this racket, huge ladder rack, and that's bolted down with a couple bolts here and upfront, so obviously if you didn't like that you could always take that off and sell it. I'm sure somebody could really use that, or maybe you have a construction business and that is absolutely what you're looking for. Either way it's in really nice condition. This one has the tailgate step assist, comes with a very nice spraying bed liner, LED bed light, so you also get side box tie downs, and it does come with a bed mat, so it's protecting the underneath of the truck, and that spraying bed liner obviously goes all the way up and onto the tailgate here. Shuts nice and solidly, and as we go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger side, no major imperfections on the box, and this back wheel is in really nice shape as well. The only thing I saw on the entire truck is there's one tiny little ding right there that we did touch up. But other than that, for a work truck this thing is pretty nice condition. Down the rest of the side, doors look really good, does have the power scope mirrors, they power fold in, power telescope out, they also have blind spot monitoring and built in directional signals. This one does have the driver's side door code entry, we do have the code for this truck. If you ever want to figure out what your code is for your 17 to 22 Super Duty in the upper right hand part of screen, I got a video showing you how to find that. Back seats are in really nice shape, no rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have, the power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost, and these seats, like I said, really nice condition, no rips, no tears, has a collapsible floor here, so you can put that in and that goes down like so, nice and flat. You also get an all-weather floor mat back here, 110 volt, 400 watt plug-in, and two USBs and a 12 volt power point back here. Very nice and clean, the headliner is in great shape too. You do get child safety locks on the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic. I'll show you the VIN sticker, no Canadian trucks here, tire and loading information sticker as well. Inside the XLT package gives you the gray cloth bucket seats. Both of these front seats are heated, no rips or tears on those seats, they're in really nice shape, smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's ever been smoked in, you get a power driver's seat, factory all-weather floor mats, power pedals, auto headlamps, tilt telescopic steering wheel, that's for your LED side lights on those mirrors, power windows locks and mirrors, and speaking of these mirrors, they do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly and then the telescope feature goes like that and in, out and in. So really nice feature of this truck. We'll hop inside, check out the miles radio and everything that's inside here, keyless entry with the remote start as well. Get the built forward tough animation there, you can see this one has 37,829 miles, you do get a digital speedometer and compass display, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Multifunction steering wheel with cruise and information center controls on the left, Bluetooth and audio controls on the right, there's your shifter for that six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. This one has the sync eight inch radio, you do get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities on this truck as well as Bluetooth capabilities. Then you get all your different apps in here including your mobile apps and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Why is that important? You can project your cell phone up there via one of those apps and if you have Waze or Google Maps on your phone, you can project it right to the screen. It's like you have nav right in the screen. So this one doesn't have the factory nav, but it does have that option. So that's really nice feature turned out four wheel drive, factory brake controller, here are your heated seat buttons, two USBs, you do get a nice storage area, here's my magic trick, you got two cup holders, abracadabra, four cup holders and that's the magic trick. 12 volt power point, 110 volt, 400 watt plug in dual glove boxes, passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition, no rips, no tears on there, once again smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's ever been smoked in and that headliner is absolutely perfect. You do get map lights up there. Let's start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that other than my hood is open. Also turn on all the lights so you can see that they're working nicely. There are those LED side lights, they are very bright and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.2 liter V8 gas engine, 385 horsepower engine base, very clean, runs very smooth and once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has four brand new tires, shocks are doing a nice job on that hood and there is the emission sticker and I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck or one of other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it we got to go to the website right there summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto click the bell notifications get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube. In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel on the upper left a link to all the F-250 videos I've ever done in the upper right link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in lower right click those check us out we're super excited to help you with this ultra clean 2019 Ford F-250 crew cab short box XLTFX4 in magnetic gray metallic thanks again for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share on the YouTube channel I really appreciate it thanks again