Daniel Fletcher was a USC English Lit graduate working for a financial firm in San Francisco when he decided to switch careers. It was summer 2016 and he’d been looking for something different. It’s not that he hated finance, or disliked the people, or even his then-team’s goals. He was just looking for something he would love. Or at least, he says, that would engage his creative side as much as writing and debating did back in college.

I was the president of the debate team at USC and loved the hard logic involved in it. So when I was thinking [about moving on to a different career]