Not everyone who works in marketing imagined they’d end up here. Sure, some of us started as marketing majors in college, but many marketers have taken really different and interesting career paths to end up in our profession.
Recently, there was a discussion on inbound.org about those interesting, winding career paths. Below are some of our favorite stories. Keep on reading to hear how an investment banker, a middle school teacher, a college dropout, and a computer repair aficionado all got into marketing.
(And hey, if you get inspired by the following stories and want to make the jump into marketing yourself, check out the inbound.org job board.)
Rand Fishkin
Founder, Moz
I was sort of always in marketing. My Mom (Gillian) opened a marketing consultancy in 1980, helping small, local businesses in the Seattle area with things like business cards, logos, letterheads, yellow pages ads, and the like. I spent a lot of days after school in her offices. In high school, I started building websites for fun, then for her clients — and that continued into college.
When I dropped out of the University of Washington in 2001, I went to work full time with my Mom, who became my cofounder for SEOmoz, now Moz. Moz actually is a direct extension of the company first started by Gillian.
9 Successful Marketers Answer 1 Simple Question: How’d You Get Started?
