{"id":4235,"date":"2014-07-22T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T15:01:10","slug":"philosophy-behind-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2014\/07\/22\/philosophy-behind-career\/","title":{"rendered":"The philosophy behind a career"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Naomi
Naomi Williamson \u201978 is co-owner of Sanctuary, a\u00a0restaurant in Minneapolis\u2019 Mill City district. Of all her\u00a0career experiences, Williamson said that the restaurant\u00a0business is \u201cfar and away the most difficult.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She\u2019s a lawyer, a seasoned business operations executive, a mother of two, a biotech entrepreneur, and a restaurant owner. She\u2019s also a philosophy and political science double major, and an Auggie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the years since she graduated from Augsburg College, Naomi Williamson \u201978<\/strong> has charted a career path that has taken her into multiple, disparate industries and types of organizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI like the challenge,\u201d Williamson said. Each new opportunity introduces \u201ca new orbit of people and a different knowledge area.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed: After completing her bachelor\u2019s degree, Williamson went on to earn a law degree at the University of Minnesota Law School and worked as a litigator at Larkin Hoffman, one of Minnesota\u2019s largest full-service law firms. From there, she joined Honeywell, where she spent 15 years in contracts, marketing, sales, process quality, and supply chain management. After that, she helped a medical pathologist with a successful biotech start-up, and, then, in 2007, she started a restaurant with her husband, Roger Kubicki, and veteran restaurant owner Michael Kutscheid\u2014while also working on the side as an aircraft manufacturing contracts and negotiations consultant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Williamson\u2019s appetite for digging into a challenge and seeking new knowledge was evident even before she launched her professional career, however. She fell in love with philosophy, she said, after trying to make sense of the writings of Immanuel Kant. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me four hours to read 40 pages\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t fully understand it, but I thought that if I did, I might be able to find the answers I was looking for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This willingness to do the hard work to make sense of things is so consistently woven into Williamson\u2019s educational and career choices that it appears to be more of an internal drive, a calling, than a choice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t get myself on easy street,\u201d she joked. \u201cI\u2019m always doing something to make sure that my next step is just as hard as the last one.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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