{"id":51392,"date":"2019-01-10T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=51392"},"modified":"2022-11-01T20:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T03:19:41","slug":"salesforce-career-stories-the-importance-of-creating-your-own-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/blog\/salesforce-career-stories-the-importance-of-creating-your-own-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce Career Stories: The Importance Of Creating Your Own Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eight years ago, Andrew Bourne was a little lost in his career \u2013\u00a0Salesforce was the jump-start he needed. Now Director of Sales Development in Australia, if he could give his 21-year-old self any advice it would be to join Salesforce sooner. He shares his career journey, revealing how he\u2019s gotten lucky in his career, and why he now believes in the importance of creating your own luck and making your career aspirations known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where did you grow up and how did your career begin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I grew up in Toronto, Canada \u2013 my entire family still lives there. After high school, I went to university, but I wasn\u2019t ready, so I left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I joined a management trainee program with a massive rental car organisation in North America. It was great, it taught me sales, management and how to run a business. I became a branch manager very quickly but it was a tough gig. I went to a historically low-performing branch in a bad location, and no matter what I did, I couldn\u2019t lift the numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So after spending many years working 60\u201380-hour weeks, stressed out of my mind, and chasing people for cars and money, I realised this wasn\u2019t the life I wanted. Still relatively young, in my late 20s, I decided I wanted to do something different and travel the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During high school, I\u2019d worked in a ski shop in Toronto. And, through friends, a ski shop in New Zealand offered me a job to run their workshop, paying for my flights and visa, and they did that for a few seasons. It was an amazing way to fund my travels around Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then one year, New Zealand had a tough ski season and there wasn\u2019t much work. It was time to start taking my sales and management career a little more seriously again. Still living in New Zealand, I spent some time working as an Account Manager for Vodafone, met my wife and we made the decision to move to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n