-: The part that I really love about doing policy work is,
again, you are always finding yourself collaborating
with incredibly smart, talented, engaging people,
who probably have a passion just like you do,
that inner fire that, this is something that's not right,
or completely wrong and needs to be fixed.
Working with other people, that talented,
really brings out the most in you.
But the other thing that I love the most is,
you know that every day, when you go to work,
whether you're having a good day or a bad day at work,
when you go home at night, you can feel good
that you did something for your community today,
you did something to make the world
a little bit of a better place
and being a Virginia Tech Hokie,
that's a very, very big thing for us.
Because we are taught that, we are here,
Ut Prosim, That I May Serve,
and so it's good that I can bring that
into my professional career.
Wouldn't be a surprise to anybody to know
that in public policy, you are going to have to
work with people who may or may not
see things the way you see them.
And sometimes it's a long battle to get somebody
to work with you, understand your viewpoint,
sometimes it can get a little frustrating,
and you just sort of have to remember your grounding
and who you are and why you are where you are,
and not take things personally,
and move on to the next day
'cause the next day is another conversation.