Having more or less learned how to read and count by watching Sesame Street as a kid, I enjoyed the sense that I was perhaps contributing in a small way to the education of future generations around the world. I also learned that I didn't love working in a regular office doing the same thing every day, and that I needed more direct interaction with the people I was interested in helping. It seems weird in retrospect, but those insights from my time at Sesame Street were probably invaluable in leading me to a career in academic medicine with a focus in clinical cancer research.