As many know, I spent my entire undergrad at BYU with the intent of entering Dental School. While I was a business major, I spent a great chunk of my time studying many of the sciences including general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, physics, biology, and biochemistry. During the interim between school I started a flourishing cable television, phone, and internet business with a couple of long time friends. It ended up being my bread and butter. It literally paid for all my schooling, housing, applications, test fees, and interview travels to various dental schools. It even helped cover a dental trip to Honduras where I helped to give free dental care to many Hondurans.
Interestingly, nine interviews and a couple acceptances later I became disinterested almost completely in the dental field. A combination of reasons led me to this conclusion. One of them came from my work as a dental assistant. I thought to myself, “if I’m going to own my own business like this, why not do something I can at least enjoy.” A myriad of other reasons were also on my list, but it was obviously not right for me. Better to find out now than later.
My brother and I started experimenting and reading about digital signage as a form of media and advertising a few years ago. Since then, I’ve been reading pretty extensively on the subject.
I just find it a bit interesting that I went from one DDS to another. First I was going to be a Doctor of Dental Surgery. Now, I’m working on Dynamic Digital Signage. Funny how things turn out I’d say.
I certainly do not regret in the slightest the things I learned while in the Pre-Dental classes I took at the “Y.” Experience is sometimes expensive, but it beats the alternative: getting two years into a career you realized was the wrong decision.
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