Like everyone else, I discovered that figuring how out to support myself while doing something I truly enjoyed was going to be difficult. I knew at a young age that I needed to find something that motivated me -- something that would challenge me for an entire career.
Life seemed too short to do anything that didn’t give me satisfaction. I feel like I got lucky: At my first "real" job, when I was 27, I had the good fortune of being introduced to the concept of product licensing. Companies would rent my ideas, I discovered, if they were good enough.
