09-21-2026MY FIRST JOB

Why ‘Grit starts at the copy machine,’ is still great advice, according to Evite CEO David Yeom

Lessons learned from a humbling first job.

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The first three days of my career were spent in front of a copy machine.

I was fresh out of college, newly hired at Arthur Andersen in downtown Los Angeles, convinced I was about to dive........

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