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See how your organization can prepare today at boozallin.com slash commercial. Hello, my name is Anna Bellic, and I am the director of thought leadership at

SISDG, a cloud and container security company.

I was convinced when I was a kid that I wanted to be a mathematician.

And now that I'm a jolt, I think you should be highly suspicious of kids that tell you they want to be mathematicians or brain surgeons or software engineers because kids don't want to do that.

Kids want to be dinosaurs and firefighters and candy store owners.

And so the ones that say they want to be mathematicians are coached.

I was coached by my nerdy parents and I was convinced I wanted to be a mathematician.

So I kind of followed it through because it wasn't bad, right? You know, I enjoyed the classes. I enjoyed activities that involved math and science and discovering

sort of the world in this way. But the moment when I really had to think about it was when I

actually was choosing a major for college. And I really wanted to study

psychology as it turned out, but basically I decided to study physics instead. And the logic there

was that, well, by this point, I realized that math is a little too abstract for me and I would like

something a little more tangible and practical. And so physics was the choice because I figured the psychology was not going to be a good

career trajectory in terms of being employable.

So I was like, well, let's just do the physics thing.

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