Ryan Murphy

                                                                                                Shipping Supplies Sales Intern   Boxes, tape, toilet paper, stretch wrap, and gloves. These items don’t typically fill the trunk of a teenager, but they filled mine when I worked as a Sales Intern for a shipping supplies company. I spent every Monday in the office calling customers to set up meetings for the next week. Then on Tuesday through Friday, I was out in the field driving to see ten customers per day. Five of those customers had confirmed meetings, four of them were “drop-ins” (current customers without confirmed meetings), and one was a cold call (a company buying nothing from us). My responsibilit...

I'm from Duluth, GA. This is a suburb about 20 miles north of Atlanta. I'm going to Seattle, and I'm going to get there in my car since I have a full-time job waiting at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I'm like my parents in that we're all motivated and goal-driven, but also make time for family and other aspects of life besides work. I'm unlike my parents in our approaches to responsibility. I'm doing my best to live life care-free for the next year, while they have assets and family to manage. I also grew up in a more materially blessed and comfortable environment than they did. I developed my expectations for myself through my years of success growing up. I made higher grades and had more ambitious goals (due to my parents) than most of my friends, and I still expect more of myself than most of my hometown friends. Jeff Bezos is an inspiration because of the incredible passion he brings to running his company, and the personal responsibility of maintaining Ama...