The compliance career path has never been a straight line. It’s not like medicine, for example, where you know early on you’re going to be spending a lot of time and money learning to become a doctor. And once you become one, you spend the rest of your working days practicing medicine.
With compliance, the road is much more circuitous. There are many tracks to a career in compliance: a staff reshuffling after a company recognizes an unmet need or new priority, a practicing lawyer deciding to move “in house” after unhappily working long hours at a big firm, an underutilized generalist having an ethical Come to Jesus moment, to name a few of the unmapped routes taken.
