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packaging industry is often seeking for packaging sales representatives and future managers. For once, someone not only reciprocated my enthusiasm but validated what I had been seeking in my elevator speech! I had a purpose, and it began with this one phone call! I was awarded the ICPF travel grant and a month later in late February I was flying to Michigan on my way to the Dialogue Dinner and Teleconference. While on the way there, I received a call from a consulting firm, which earlier interviewed me, offering a summer 2020 internship. I was thrilled. It might not have been my dream internship, but it was the required internship needed on my resume and transcript. I arrived in East Lansing and excitedly joined the 35 talented students from across the country and the dozen industry executives who were participating in ICPF’s Dia- logue Dinner. After introductions, I sat at one of the half dozen or so round tables each having about seven stu- dents and two corrugated packaging executives. At first, the students, at my table who reintroduced themselves, seemed a bit nervous and quiet. Due to my confidence from the consulting internship offer, I convinced myself that I had nothing to lose by jumping into the dialogue. The room’s atmosphere quickly shifted as I learned that the students and executives were genuinely intrigued and supportive of not only my own packaging interests and questions, but of each other’s. From design, to business,
technical or business side? We don’t have a need for that type of blend.” Despite this challenge to find this fit in the packaging industry, the packaging club continued offering support by encouraging me to take on other leadership positions and participate in packaging-related events. I was informed of an opportunity to apply for an International Corrugat- ed Packaging Foundation (ICPF) travel grant to Michigan to attend ICPF’s 2020 Student Dialogue Dinner and its Teleconference on the Business of Corrugated Packaging & Displays. While I was struggling to redesign my future career plans, I decided to apply on a whim. Once more, I wrote in my application to ICPF about my dreams of com- bining marketing or business with packaging. After send- ing in this application, I decided I better also start applying to established internship programs even if they weren’t exactly what I wanted to do. Within a week or so in applying to the ICPF travel grant, I received a phone call from Richard Flaherty saying that he had reviewed my travel grant application. Although I was preparing myself for him to explain that my unique passion of blending my marketing interests with packag- ing was not what the industry is seeking, he sounded ex- cited and optimistic. He continued to say that what I be- lieved to be my unique passion in combining marketing & sales with packaging is precisely what the corrugated
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