What got me here?

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I entered the industry fresh from college with ambitions to join the contracting community for several reasons. It wouldn't have seemed likely for me to get here without some sort of luck given the inherent self-preservation mentality that most "contractors" maintain. However, a little persistence and faith and maybe a lot of luck (from a higher power?) later, and I was in.

What made me want in this industry in the first place? I sought after a respectable career-path from early childhood and believe that an honest days work gets an honest days pay. Modeling my choices after those who had acheived the unacheivable, I decided a decent lifestyle could be afforded by choosing a career in this field.

Other things that have contributed to my wanting to pursue this field were: my father's twenty-five years as a Federal Contracting Officer for SPAWAR (DAWIA-level-III) -- this impressed upon me a great deal of respect for the Contracting community and the possibility of putting the taxpayers' money to good use. Secondly, there is a great deal of similarity between the occupational skills one would need for this position and personality characteristics I exhibit that give me an edge in obtaining the necessary skills for this job - I learned this thru management courses at USC and the Miggs-Breyers career-personality-indicator. Last but not least, I never turn aware from opportunity and the compensation for jobs in the civil service can be OUTSTANDING!

My first experiences in this industry have been positive, but even moreso, they have given me insight into the realistic perspective that our old-fashioned approach and processes for Procuring goods and services are as much inefficable as they are wasteful.

Please let me know if you think of a better way to enable governmental change, so that I can help put our country's vast resources to better use in order to help us regain our competitive advantage for the future. We will need that to continue to prosper in the 21st Century global market and to give our kids a better chance.