Click Your Fortune #2: Imagined careers - Alessandro Centrone

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Click Your Fortune is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style series that literally feeds questions from students to knowledgeable experts around the world. This intro video explains it all: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/click-your-fortune-episode-2

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Adital Ela: Sustainability Designer
Sandra Aamodt: Neuroscientist; Author
John Werner: Leadership Team, Citizen Schools; Research Scientist, MIT
Alessandro Centrone: Vice President of Sales & Distribution, Steelcase Inc.

I always had the idea

that I wanted to work for company

maybe in the financial world.

Maybe I was somehow biased and affected

by movies like "Wall Street".

So, I grew up in Italy

and watching movies like "Wall Street"

where movies that were picturing

this image of successful people

managing in a very successful business environment

and it was something that was really intriguing,

only to find out later on

that the world is not exactly

what you see in those movies.

But I guess I had a clear idea

that I was very attracted by a career

in an international enviornment

and an environment where corporate challenges

were probably one of the things

that would have interested me.

So, I think it turned out

that things were not so much different

from what I projected when I was in grade school.

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