>> I like that challenge of taking the various departments' needs and trying
to find the right people to meet those needs, and Norfolk Southern tends
to hire very intelligent, driven, hard-working people, and I like the challenge of keeping
that going and ensuring that we continue to have the right people on board and people that want
to come in with a long-standing career, not just another job.
I'd say the biggest challenge right now is the intensive travel.
I mean, that I am gone Monday through Friday, my social life can get behind.
I have a wife back home, a nine-month old, and my wife also works professionally.
So trying to balance all of that can be challenging,
but it helps to have a supportive spouse and then you learn
to be really smart with your time management.
So that's something I'm able to overcome on a weekly basis, or I wouldn't keep doing it.
And then getting to where I am.
HR as a whole can be hard to get into.
In fact, we don't have any entry-level positions in HR within our organization.
So I've had to start really from the bottom and work my way up to the position I'm in now,
and I hope to just keep climbing from here.