This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

I was a theater major for two years in college and then I shifted to military and ancient

history.

So you asked yourself, holy cow, what is a guy like with that going to do with his life

and there were these handouts that the history department of the University of Colorado used

to give?

I remember it said, what to tell your parents about choosing history as a major to try to

give you some arguments for your folks, right?

Because what are you going to do with that, right?

Well, here's the rub.

I use both that history and the theater stuff every single day in my job.

The job that did not exist when I went to college.

So how could you possibly have gone to college to be trained for what I do for a living now

and yet it did exactly that and I use it every day?

It's the funny way the serendipitous way life works that way.

And again, it's interesting because obviously people of you businesses either successes or

failures, but if you viewed that concept as an experiment, no experiment is really a failure

because you learn something whether it works or it doesn't work.

I think people who look at college as a way to get a job or is a mistake unless you're

going to be a doctor or a lawyer or something that's absolutely the path is geared toward

...