The Boss: A Long Road to Television
August 29, 2009 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
MY family took great ski vacations when I was a kid. I’m the oldest of five. My father, who taught high school, used to drive us in a big green van from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Lake Tahoe in a big green van. We stayed in my grandparents’ cabin there.
Lifetime Networks
ANDREA WONG
Chief Executive, Lifetime Networks, Los Angeles
AGE 43
ON HER OFFICE WALL Photo calendar of her nieces and nephews
HERO Her mother
I was always entrepreneurial. When I was in high school, I ran a summer camp out of my house, with three sessions of 10 to 15 children each. I hired my sisters as counselors. I taught swimming, and I loved to put on plays.
My junior year in high school, I picked up a pamphlet in my school’s career center for a Harvard summer school program. It sounded exciting. Somehow my parents found a way for me to go.
When you grow up in the heart of Silicon Valley, if you’re good in math, everyone tells you to become an engineer. After attending that program, I wanted to go to college in the Boston area. I applied to M.I.T. I had an admission interview with Roger Borovoy, an alumnus, and was waitlisted. When he found out, he …
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