Choose work that supports your values, speaker tells USU business students

By Jon Cox

March 24, 2005 | LOGAN -- A Farm Bureau Insurance employee encouraged USU students Tuesday to prepare well and choose wisely their future careers.

"College is a launch pad for your career," Shawn Smith, the Farm Bureau's district sales manager told a group of students from the College of Business. "What you choose for a career will shape your family life, church life and everything else you do."

Smith, a 2001 USU graduate, is responsible for hiring and recruiting efforts of the company in the northern region of Utah. As a senior at USU, he worked as an intern with Farm Bureau and recommends students follow a similar pattern.

"You need to know if you fit in a career, because if you don't, in the end it will give you a stomach ulcer," Smith said.

Smith invited students to picture themselves in their chosen careers 20 years down the road and ask themselves if that is really where they want to be.

"I didn't want to look back at life and say I missed the most important moments in my family because I was at work," Smith said.

The meeting was hosted by the school's Financial Planning Student Association. The group's next guest speaker is still yet to be announced.

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