“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
Tomorrow I leave for a business trip to India. As I was packing, a thought bubble popped into my brain. My entire professional career has been in international trade compliance and for the last nearly 15 years, I sorta feel like the business of international trade and I have grown up together.
Oh, the places we’ve been…factory visits, C-TPAT validations, conferences and foreign ports. I don’t know if it was my own good fortune for seeing something in the world that so few realized at just the right time or if it was fate that scooped up all my passions and fashioned this business just for me but I’ll never argue my choice of profession. Trade nerds around the world, yea, you know what I’m talking about.
So here starts another fun chapter in the Choose Your Own Adventure of trade compliance. I thought it fitting to use this moment as the moment to re-start my online canvas of creative musings and foster my personal challenge to continue seeing things in this world and following my unavoidable interest in human exchange. Let’s do it.
