You can't take things personally when you're working in a tough atmosphere. But that doesn't mean you have to ignore who you are. I 've worked full-time since I was 18 years old. While in university, I had a job as a logistics analyst for Argentina's national post office. My team was managing all the logistics at the country level. I was intrigued by the kind of large-scale problems they were facing. In fact, working with them would make me decide after graduation to join a multinational company, collaborating in a multicultural environment to address complex challenges. But the work environment was challenging. I was a young woman working in a government office, having to keep up with the heavyweights of the operation, which at that time was predominantly male-dominated. To succeed in such a tough atmosphere, I knew I would need to grow a thick elephant skin and not take things personally. In the end, I don't think that I was treated differently, maybe because I had grown that thick skin. As soon as I graduated and moved to Buenos Aires, I started looking for a job in a multinational 91