Finally Figuring It Out

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I finally made it to my last summer before going into the “real world.” To me, it was a lot of pressure to find something that I was going to enjoy but also consider something that I may consider as a full-time job. As I was going to enter my last year at Purdue, finding a job was going from “something down the road” to a task I needed to get on track to finding. The last summer internship to me was an opportunity to open a door to a possible full-time job with whatever company I had decided to work for. Last spring semester one of the best opportunities fell into my lap for an internship. Little did I know that after a summer I would find my dream job and company. This summer I was the Indiana Agronomy Intern for Pivot Bio, a startup company that now stands out to me among other ag companies. They have begun to sell a liquid in-furrow product that produces available nitrogen for corn and can replace a portion of synthetic fertilizer with. Going into the summer I was nervous, because it was a newer company that wasn’t quite a big dog in the industry like Corteva, Syngenta, Pioneer, etc. It did not take long to find out the golden opportunity I had. Every person I got to meet over the summer was welcoming and very intelligent many agronomic areas. Pivot Bio continues to grow everyday and even as an intern, I felt like every other employee there who was involved. Even my internship project impacted the company doing research on their newly launched product.  You might think, what is the point of all of this? Well, going into this year I was still so unsure of what I wanted to do when I graduated, and had not gotten what I fully wanted out of previous internships. I was patient and continued to get this internship this past summer which is what led me to my dream job. Some of you may be wondering how you’ll find what you want to do in your career. I advise you to keep trying different things and taking new opportunities and eventually you will figure it out.