>> What I love about my career in building materials is I could always see and touch
and understand how my products were making a home better, making a building better
so it was very tangible and I'd walk into rooms and look up at the ceilings
or look down at the flooring or check out the walls or look through the windows
because they were products that I was involved in and I knew that that those products mattered
to homeowners and building occupants every day.
Some of the challenges that I've faced in my career have been severe downturns in the economy
so you have times when you have to look at ways
of making a business smaller in order to remain successful.
There's always the people aspects that you have to not only understand what people are looking
for in their careers but understand what your business needs are and try and balance the two.
And maybe the biggest challenge, the biggest opportunity and the thing that made it fun
to come into the job every day was understanding what customers needed
and how our company would be able to best provide solutions
for whatever those customer needs were.