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Martin Hill at EBSCO HQ. (Jacob Blankenship / Bham Now)
We always love a good career twist story, and Martin Hill’s got a great one. Not everyone’s story starts with engineering, takes a musical detour and leads to marketing at a large international outdoor brand, but this one does. Find out what about the culture of EBSCO Industries made Hill’s unusual career path possible.
Meet Martin Hill
Born and raised in Birmingham, Hill graduated from Hewitt-Trussville High School before heading to the University of Alabama to study engineering. Turns out, tuba called to him more than calculus did, so he switched his major.
Later, he got his master’s in music performance from Georgia State before becoming a gigging tuba player in Atlanta for six years.
Love brought him back to his hometown of Birmingham, when an innocent MySpace message rekindled a romance with his high school sweetheart, who had a stable accounting career here.
Now the two are married with a quirky six-year old son “who’s just the joy of our life.”
Bham Now: How did you go from music to digital marketing at EBSCO?
Hill: Through college, I was working in restaurants to make ends meet. When I came back, I immediately started working in a restaurant near the Apple Store. When employees would come in, I would nerd out with them on the latest tech.
When I asked a friend who’d been in tech for years how to get into that sector, he recommended I get into website development, so I started taking a bunch of classes.
One day a gentleman came into the restaurant and said “I think you guys should have a website.” I gave him the address of the one I had just finished building. That led to a part-time job offer with a small local startup that focused on digital marketing and website development.
One day, that company closed up shop and the restaurant where I worked also closed its doors unexpectedly, leaving me with no…
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