Things I've learned, with Dr. Aronhime of Entrepreneurship and Mgmt.
N-L: I understand that you pursued an English degree here, is that correct?
LA: Yes, for which I have no regrets.
N-L: So then could you speak a little about how you ended up in business, and what the connection is between that?
LA; I left here to be a school-teacher, and that is what I did - I had various types of different student experiences. When I was an undergrad I taught in a variety of environments, and I left here specifically to be a teacher. And I did that for eight years or so. And I left teaching for the simple reason that I couldn't even come close to paying my bills.
And so, if you want to pay your bills, you go into business, one way or the other. And I looked around, and it seemed to be that the easiest, simplest route into business, and therefore into the middle class, was through accounting. So I studied accounting and became an accountant. I spent maybe a year working as an accountant, before moving into consulting and the corporate side of life.
N-L: How did you end up coming back as a professor at Hopkins?
LA: When I was working as an accountant and consultant, I obtained a teaching job in a couple small schools actually, one of which was the evening college at Hopkins, and from there I ended up in the Whiting School, and that was 2000, 1999; and I taught at some other colleges around also. But once I came here, I basically left everything else.
And I've always taught a variety of subjects in the different places I've taught.
N-L: So then you've taught accounting classes as well.
LA: I've taught accounting, managerial accounting, management, and that has led to some other classes, such as entrepreneurship and of course Intro to Business, which dominates my life almost, as you can imagine.
N-L: So then, from your time in business, do you have any bit of wisdom that you could share?
LA: Well, there's no alternative [to going into business], which makes you a wiser generation than we were - you know you're going to end up in business. If you pursue medicine, one way or another, it's a business; academia is also a business; It's all business, and you all get that in ways we simply didn't when I was younger.
LA: Yes, for which I have no regrets.
N-L: So then could you speak a little about how you ended up in business, and what the connection is between that?
LA; I left here to be a school-teacher, and that is what I did - I had various types of different student experiences. When I was an undergrad I taught in a variety of environments, and I left here specifically to be a teacher. And I did that for eight years or so. And I left teaching for the simple reason that I couldn't even come close to paying my bills.
And so, if you want to pay your bills, you go into business, one way or the other. And I looked around, and it seemed to be that the easiest, simplest route into business, and therefore into the middle class, was through accounting. So I studied accounting and became an accountant. I spent maybe a year working as an accountant, before moving into consulting and the corporate side of life.
N-L: How did you end up coming back as a professor at Hopkins?
LA: When I was working as an accountant and consultant, I obtained a teaching job in a couple small schools actually, one of which was the evening college at Hopkins, and from there I ended up in the Whiting School, and that was 2000, 1999; and I taught at some other colleges around also. But once I came here, I basically left everything else.
And I've always taught a variety of subjects in the different places I've taught.
N-L: So then you've taught accounting classes as well.
LA: I've taught accounting, managerial accounting, management, and that has led to some other classes, such as entrepreneurship and of course Intro to Business, which dominates my life almost, as you can imagine.
N-L: So then, from your time in business, do you have any bit of wisdom that you could share?
LA: Well, there's no alternative [to going into business], which makes you a wiser generation than we were - you know you're going to end up in business. If you pursue medicine, one way or another, it's a business; academia is also a business; It's all business, and you all get that in ways we simply didn't when I was younger.
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