"... 1. Engage openly with people - You never know who you’re talking to: McLeod told me the story about when she was waiting tables in graduate school in Florida and one of her regular customers worked at the EPA and asked her about her own career. Ultimately, that customer connected McLeod to her friend at the EPA who gave McLeod her first “real” job in the environmental space."
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanmichelson2/2019/08/12/8-mid-career-lessons-for-women--from-kathy-baughman-mcleod/#4092b715628d