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\"\"Eduardo Cesar<\/span>Esteban Ferrari, 43, considers himself professionally and personally fulfilled as a teacher. He began his career by studying mechatronics engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (Poli\/USP). He then worked for two large multinationals and now teaches graduate classes at places like USP\u2019s Institute of Administration Foundation (FIA) and the \u00c1lvares Penteado Business School Foundation (Fecap), in the city of S\u00e3o Paulo, in addition to working as an executive coach and career coach. \u201cThe only time I worked as an engineer was during a one-year internship in the technical sector of the company Cofap \u2013 long enough to know that that wasn\u2019t what I wanted to do.\u201d He then worked six years at Allison Transmission, a division of GM in Brazil that makes automatic transmissions for buses and trucks. For the first three years he was an after-sales technical trainer for automotive distributors and dealers; for the second three, he coordinated after-sales services. \u201cIt was a very operational area and I wanted to work with strategy and planning.\u201d In 1999, he decided to take a graduate course in business administration at the Get\u00falio Vargas Foundation (FGV).<\/p>\n

He next went to work at Telef\u00f4nica as a senior marketing analyst. During his ten years there, he held the posts of manager and superintendent of marketing. Everything was going very well in his career but the long working hours demanded of an executive kept him from spending time with his two children. \u201cThat\u2019s when I started asking myself if I really wanted to continue working in the business sector,\u201d he says. He was particularly drawn to one of his ideas about making a change \u2013 to take up teaching \u2013 because he enjoyed topics in the field of personnel and behavior management, which were classes that had taken at the FGV and during his graduate-level business studies at the Dom Cabral Foundation in 2002. \u201cIt was a path I thought I might pursue, but the change would require courage, and I was comfortably settled in.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his vacation in May 2009, he decided to trek one of the Santiago de Compostela routes in Spain. \u201cIt was a milestone in my life, a watershed moment between before and after,\u201d he observes. Temporarily leaving his wife, children, and the entire lifestyle to which he\u2019d grown accustomed in S\u00e3o Paulo, he spent 30 days covering 800 kilometers of a path that, according to him, has nothing to do with mysticism. \u201cIt\u2019s a pathway to self-reflection, where I had the opportunity to get to know myself better,\u201d he says. Upon his return, he announced his decision to quit the firm where he then worked. In February 2010, he started his master\u2019s degree at the USP School of Economics, Business Administration, and Accounting; his research topic was career transitions. \u201cI studied the phenomenon at the same time that I analyzed myself,\u201d he says. Ferrari has a favorite thought that he always shares with his students: \u201cThe answer to what we want to do in the future almost always has something to do with what we\u2019ve done in the past and found highly enjoyable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Executive decides to leave big business behind in order to teach","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-146167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146167"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=146167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}