MJ
Marcus Johnson
Staff Engineer · Google · 12 yrs
Leads a workplace Bible study; mentors on Sabbath rhythms and on-call culture in big tech.
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Live · Spring 2026
Marketplace · Faith & Vocation
Work like it's worship.
Work like it's worship.
Lead like it's a calling.
A professional-development platform for UC San Diego Tritons preparing to live, thrive and excel in academia, industry, business and ministry — with integrity, competence and a faith that goes to work on Monday.
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men… You are serving the Lord Christ.”
— Colossians 3:23–24
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01 · CAREER PATHWAYS NAVIGATOR
Select your path. See the whole road.
Click a calling below. The navigator reveals a real, stage-by-stage progression — the skills, credentials, compensation and faith-integration questions that meet you at every step.
The academic road
Teaching and research as a vocation of truth-telling. Being a believing scholar with integrity, rigor and grace.
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Undergraduate · Years 1–4
Build a strong GPA, find a research lab early, present at the Undergraduate Research Conference. Skills: writing, statistics, a faculty relationship.
Comp: research stipends $3k–$6k / summer
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PhD / Master's · Years 5–9
Funded doctoral program, first-author publications, conference networks. Credentials: PhD, teaching certificate.
Comp: $32k–$45k stipend + tuition waiver
3
Postdoc / Assistant Professor
Grant writing, lab leadership, tenure track. Faith challenge: academic freedom & Christian conviction in research ethics.
Comp: $70k–$110k
4
Tenured Professor / Dept. Leadership
Mentoring the next generation, shaping curriculum with integrity. Calling: teaching as discipleship of the mind.
Comp: $120k–$200k+
The industry road
Tech, engineering and applied science at scale — excellence as witness inside the world's biggest companies.
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Intern · Sophomore–Senior
Land a summer internship, ship real code/hardware, convert to a return offer. Skills: data structures, systems, communication.
Comp: $7k–$11k / month
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Entry Engineer · L3/E3
First full-time role, find your Christian-in-tech community, set a Sabbath rhythm early. Faith challenge: work-life balance & on-call culture.
Comp: $115k–$165k total
3
Senior / Staff Engineer
Technical leadership, design reviews, mentoring juniors. Ethics: AI/ML decisions, privacy, dark patterns.
Comp: $200k–$350k total
4
Principal / Eng. Manager / Director
Shaping culture, hiring with integrity, stewarding influence. Calling: servant leadership at scale.
Comp: $350k–$700k+ total
The business & finance road
Consulting, finance and operations — stewarding resources and people with biblical principle.
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Analyst · Entry
Two-year analyst program, modeling and decks, long hours. Skills: Excel, financial modeling, integrity under pressure.
Comp: $85k–$130k + bonus
2
Associate / Senior Analyst
Client ownership, team leadership. Faith challenge: ethical investing, serving vs. profits.
Comp: $150k–$250k
3
VP / Manager
P&L responsibility, mentoring, marketplace ministry in the office. Credentials: MBA, CFA, CPA optional.
Comp: $250k–$450k
4
Partner / Executive
Setting strategy and culture, generous giving, redemptive business. Calling: influence as stewardship.
Comp: $500k–$2M+
The founder's road
Building something from nothing with kingdom values — profit and purpose held together.
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Idea & Validation
Solve a real problem, talk to 50 users, join the campus Venture Studio. Skills: customer discovery, prototyping.
Comp: $0 — ramen & faith
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Pre-Seed / Seed
First hires, MVP, Christian investor networks. Faith challenge: Sabbath vs. hustle culture.
Raise: $250k–$2M
3
Growth · Series A+
Scaling team and culture, hiring with integrity. Ethics: honesty with investors, caring for people.
Comp: market salary + equity
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Exit / Steward
Acquisition or sustainable business; generous stewardship of outcome. Calling: business as mission.
Outcome: redemptive impact
The non-profit road
Mission-driven work — justice, mercy and service as a profession.
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Program Volunteer / Fellow
Serve locally, learn the sector, build empathy. Skills: grant basics, community building.
Comp: stipend $20k–$35k
2
Program Coordinator
Run programs, write grants, measure impact. Faith challenge: sustainability & avoiding burnout.
Comp: $42k–$58k
3
Director of Programs
Strategy, fundraising, team leadership. Credentials: MPA / MNA optional.
Comp: $65k–$95k
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Executive Director / Founder
Vision, board, donors, lasting mission. Calling: loving the least as Christ did.
Comp: $90k–$160k
The ministry road
Vocational ministry — and marketplace ministry careers that bring the gospel into business contexts.
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Lay Leader / Intern
Serve in your campus ministry, lead a small group, discern calling. Skills: teaching, shepherding, prayer.
Comp: stipend / volunteer
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Seminary / Apprenticeship
Theological training, ministry residency. Credentials: M.Div, ordination track.
Comp: $25k–$40k + tuition
3
Associate Pastor / Chaplain
Lead a ministry area, disciple, counsel. Faith challenge: longevity & family health in ministry.
Comp: $45k–$70k
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Lead Pastor / Missions / Marketplace Chaplain
Shepherd a community, plant, or serve professionals at work. Calling: equipping the saints for the work.
Comp: varies / support-raised
02 · PROFESSIONAL MENTORSHIP MATCHING
Find a Christian professional who's walked it.
Tell us your field, your interest and the faith questions on your mind. The matcher surfaces mentors from our alumni, faculty and industry network — then you request a connection.
Matched mentors (6)
Sorted by relevanceAvailable
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Dr. Priya Anand
Physician · UC San Diego Health · 15 yrs
Guides pre-med students on bioethics, compassion in practice and medical missions.
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Diane Lewis
Partner · Deloitte · 18 yrs
Coaches on consulting careers, integrity in client work and quiet workplace witness.
ConsultingLeadershipWitness
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Dr. Rachel Stone
Assoc. Professor · UCSD Bioeng. · 10 yrs
Helps students discern the academic calling, navigate PhD apps and faith in research.
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Tobi Okafor
Founder & CEO · HealthTech startup · 8 yrs
Mentors founders on raising capital, building culture and Sabbath in startup life.
FundraisingFounderCulture
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Samuel Kim
Finance Manager · Qualcomm · 6 yrs
Talks through ethical finance, early-career money decisions and tithing on salary.
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No exact matches — try widening your filters. Every Triton can still request an intro call.
03 · INDUSTRY DEEP-DIVES
What faith looks like, sector by sector.
The questions are different in a hospital than in a hedge fund. Choose a sector for the realities, the ethics, the communities and the resources specific to it.
A Christian in Big Tech
Working at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple or Meta is a remarkable platform — and a real test. The pace, the comp, the ethical weight of AI/ML decisions, and a culture that rarely rests. Excellence is the first witness; integrity is the second.
Ethical dilemmas
Privacy, dark patterns, model bias — how to raise concerns wisely.
Sabbath in tech
Protecting rest in an always-on, on-call industry.
Christian tech communities
Faith-driven employee groups, prayer Slacks, lunch studies.
Excellence as worship
Craft, code reviews and reliability done unto the Lord.
Faith in medicine & the life sciences
Healing is holy work. Whether at the bedside, in the lab, or in a clinic overseas, Christian healthcare workers serve image-bearers with compassion — navigating bioethics, suffering and the sanctity of life.
Bioethics
Beginning & end of life, gene editing, Christian conviction.
Compassionate care
Presence and prayer with patients, within professional bounds.
Medical missions
Integrating service trips with a long-term career.
CMDA networks
Christian Medical & Dental Associations chapters.
Business & finance as stewardship
Commerce can bless cities or exploit them. Christian professionals in business and finance steward capital and people with biblical principle — choosing service over greed and the long good over the quick win.
Biblical business
Honest weights, fair wages, generous giving.
Ethical investing
Faith-aligned funds, conscience and returns.
Serving vs. profits
Customers and employees as neighbors, not means.
Marketplace ministry
Quiet faithful presence in corporate settings.
The believing scholar
The university is a mission field of ideas. Christian academics teach with integrity, research honestly, and hold conviction and academic freedom together — loving their students and their disciplines.
Teaching with integrity
Fairness across worldviews, truth over agenda.
Research ethics
Honesty in data, credit and peer review.
Conviction & freedom
Holding faith openly in a secular academy.
Faculty fellowships
Veritas Forum, faculty Christian groups.
04 · WORKPLACE SCENARIOS · WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Decisions you'll actually face.
Step into a real dilemma. Choose your response, then see how Christian wisdom and scripture speak into the moment. There's rarely one tidy answer — but there is a way to walk in integrity.
05 · PROFESSIONAL SKILLS HUB
Tools you can actually use this week.
Templates, practice modules and tutorials — each built so a Christian professional can present excellence and integrity together. Download, practice, repeat.
Resume builder
Clean ATS-friendly templates with Christian-professional examples that show service without preaching.
Interview prep
120+ common questions, faith-informed answer frameworks and a practice module with feedback prompts.
LinkedIn optimization
Headline, summary and project tips for showcasing faith authentically and professionally.
Networking with integrity
Build genuine relationships, not transactional contacts. Scripts, follow-up templates and ethics.
Negotiation skills
Salary & offer negotiation that's honest, confident and fair — plus contract red-flags to watch.
Servant leadership
Public speaking and leadership development grounded in the model of Christ who came to serve.
Sharing faith at work — wisely.
Your best sermon is your work and your character. When the door opens, walk through it with wisdom, not a script. Know your rights, respect your colleagues, and let love lead.
Know your legal rights
Title VII protects reasonable religious expression and accommodation.
When to speak, when to stay silent
Discern invitation vs. imposition. Honor people first.
Workplace studies & prayer
Start a lunch group; serve colleagues with excellence.
“Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father.”
— Matthew 5:16
Build with kingdom values.
Founders carry unique weight — profit and purpose, hustle and Sabbath, ambition and humility. Hold them together. Here are real tools for Christian founders.
Funding sources
Faith-driven angels, accelerators, grants.
Plan templates
Business plans with mission integrated.
Hiring with integrity
Build a culture worth working for.
Sabbath & startups
Rest as a competitive advantage.
Kingdom Business Model Canvas · quick fill
08 · GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
Going further — with conviction intact.
Advanced education multiplies influence. Plan the path, find the funding, and find a believing community wherever you land.
MBA
Business school & values
Top programs, GMAT prep, and how Christian leaders steward an MBA.
Avg. ROI 2yr · funding via fellowships
JD
Law school & ethics
LSAT timelines, legal ethics, justice as a Christian vocation.
Christian Legal Society chapters
MD
Medical school & faith
MCAT, application strategy, faith through the grind of med school.
CMDA student chapters
PhD
PhD & scholarship
Fully-funded programs, advisor fit, Christian scholarship.
Funded · stipend + tuition
CPA/PE/CFA
Professional certs
Credentials that open doors — CPA, PE, CFA, PMP and more.
Self-paced · employer-funded
M.Div
Seminary & ministry
For those called to vocational ministry or theological depth.
Scholarships available
09 · COMPENSATION & FINANCIAL WISDOM
Money is discipleship. Plan it well.
Three working calculators for the first decade of a professional life — negotiate from data, kill debt with a plan, and give the first fruits with joy.
Take-home estimator
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Est. taxes (CA, ~24%)–
Retirement saved–
Monthly take-home–
Loan payoff planner
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Time to debt-free–
Total interest paid–
Giving & tithe planner
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Monthly gift–
Annual gift–
Over 10 years–
“Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops.” — Prov. 3:9
10 · PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS & COMMUNITIES
You're not meant to do this alone.
Real groups, with real meeting times. Join an industry network, a UCSD Christian alumni circle, or a local San Diego chapter — and find people who share your faith and your field.
Christians in Tech · SD
320 membersMonthly meetup + Slack. Engineers, PMs, designers across San Diego tech.
1st Thursday · 6:30pm · Price Center
CMDA Healthcare
NationalChristian Medical & Dental Associations — students & professionals.
Bi-weekly study · Wed · Med School
Faith & Finance Forum
180 membersBankers, accountants and advisors on ethical finance and giving.
Monthly breakfast · Sat · La Jolla
UCSD Christian Alumni
1,240 membersTriton believers across every class year and industry — mentorship & referrals.
Quarterly mixers · LinkedIn group
Founders of Faith
95 membersChristian entrepreneurs sharing decks, intros and prayer over the hard calls.
2nd Tuesday · 7pm · Venture Studio
Faculty & Scholars
60 membersBelieving professors and grad students — Veritas-style forums & support.
Monthly lunch · Faculty Club
Thrive holistically — not just professionally.
Your career is a part of your life, not the point of it. Order matters: God, family, work. Here's how Christian professionals keep first things first.
Sabbath rest
Marriage & career
Raising kids
Avoiding burnout
Saying no
Church + full-time work
“For the first time I scheduled rest like a meeting. My work got better, not worse.” — Triton alum, product manager
When it's time to make a move.
Pivots, relocations and resignations done with grace. Tools to decide wisely and leave well — including a quick “is it time?” check.
Quick check · Is it time to switch?
Readiness: Reflect & pray first
13 · Get started now
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