>> I love interacting with people.
I got into emergency management because I like to talk to people
and I was very people oriented while I was at Millersville.
I was at the ticket office so I was always interacting with students, always talking.
So I needed something that I could do on a daily basis where I could get out in the community
and talk to people or, you know, sit down in trainings and learn from them.
So the most rewarding part of my job is getting out and talking to these individuals
and telling them what I can provide or what the county can provide to them.
The hardest part sometimes is buy-in.
So a lot of these trainings and exercises are put into a plan.
The plans go from three to five years, depending on your jurisdiction
and Chester County has a five year training and exercise plan.
But you have to get that buy-in from your top department heads or your elected officials
and sometimes those local municipalities have a very hard time to get
that buy-in to do what they need to do.
It's not that they don't want to do it?
A lot of it is financial and money driven.
But it's getting that buy-in sometimes that is very hard to get those things off the ground.