Rachelle M. Lappinen, MBA, GCDF, CPRW

Greater Boston Area United States

Career and Education Advocate ★ Job-Hunt.org Columnist ★ LinkedIn Trainer ★ Green Energy Ambassador

Education

I appreciate the career development process more than anyone on this planet. My favorite part about changing careers was always the challenge of getting into something new. When asked as a child: “What do you want to be when you grow up,” my answer changed weekly, depending on what book or movie I was reading or watching. I wanted to be everything from nurse, a lawyer, a ballet dancer to the president of the United States. My career has been as varied. In high school and college I worked as a waitress, as a sales clerk in retail, as well as a peer educator. After college, I worked as an insurance sales rep and underwriter, as well as a mortgage originator and a telemarketer. In eac