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I worked my butt off that summer and got a full-time offer to join the business development team, but instead asked to take on an operational role. So, I applied for a summer internship at Amazon in business development. The reason is that business development often requires deal-making skills – something I had picked up in finance – but it also involves a deep operational understanding of the business and its growth strategy. One recommendation I got was to try business development as a good “transition” function. Sud: I met with a bunch of startups in NYC and asked them what skill sets they thought were most transferable between finance and operations. Joffrion: When you realized you wanted to transition from finance into operations, you hit a couple of walls - namely companies who didn't want to give you a shot without this experience. Instead, having the faith that you can affect your career path at any point and realizing that opportunities come from places you could never imagine. I wish I had known that so I wouldn’t stress out so much about not having a perfect path or not getting that job interview.

And so you start to feel like, “If I don’t get the job at Goldman Sachs, I’ll never be able to become an operator and do what I want to do.” When I look back at my career path it was incredibly not linear. I remember, right out of college, I wanted to be an investment banker and I couldn’t get a job at a big bank. And then when you get out in the workforce, there can sometimes be this pressure - especially when you look at people around you. You know? You find a major and you specialize in it, you try to get a job.

When you’re young and in school, you work so hard and there is sort of a linear path. But how do you create a strategy for building a non-linear career without a playbook? And, how do you advocate for your work when you’re new to a field or if you have the skills but not the experience? I sat down with Anjali Sud at Collision in New Orleans to learn about her journey to the C-Suite and what she’s learned along the way.Įmily Joffrion: When you started your career, did you see your path as non-linear? How did this shift for you over time?Īnjali Sud:I wish I had known that careers aren’t linear.