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Twenty-four year-old Melissa Ben-Ishay didn’t see it coming. “I was lucky to be fired from my job because I wasn’t very good at it,” she says to TZR, reflecting on the pivotal moment in which she was unceremoniously ousted from her her first post-college job at advertising giant Deutsch, where she served as a media planner. Perhaps a setback in the moment, the event set off a sequence of events that would lead her to her truly calling:…