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So, when I look back at my years at NC State, I was too young to see how it all fit together, but later in life I saw how it all fit together when I got into my career as an engineer.

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The soccer provided the competitiveness and, I might add, sense of teamwork,

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because when you're in a business of more than one - and Heyward, for what they do, is a very large business - you have to work as a team to be successful, so soccer also taught me that.

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Working with ASME, I had mentioned this previously, but you value the importance of your profession and the contributions it makes, although not broadly recognized by the world.

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These are things that go on behind the scenes but they do make, as I said, power readily available and cheap.

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You learn to respect and appreciate those things, and the part I didn't say is that I met a lot of people

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and there's a number of those people who I do business with. I didn't see that coming.

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But we have a lot of goodwill from back in that timeframe which makes it easier to talk about solving problems, so ASME helped there.

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Student government taught me to reach out to your constituency, to find out what's important to them, what problems they have,

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so you can go back and try to think of what the solutions are and seek others' help to come up with solutions, which is exactly what I do now.

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Teaching at NC State: being a manufacturer's representative you're teaching your customers about solutions, different technical solutions that might help them solve their problems.

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So all of those things, unbeknownst to me, all wrapped up into what I do for a living and have done for almost thirty years.