Ross Klein
W Hotels
New York, NY USA
"I could have never, ever, ever planned the stops along the way."
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
University of Florida
Life & Career Milestones
My path in life has been direct
1.
Growing up, he was always working, starting with cleaning toilets at his uncle's gas station in Melbourne, Florida
2.
From there, he moved up to a job at Burger King.
3.
He worked his way through college by working at Sears.
4.
Realizing that he liked working in the retail sector, he majored in advertising and marketing.
5.
He feels like his career goals didn't really manifest themselves until his second or third post-college job.
6.
Says that the pressure of going from college straight into career is "a paradigm that needs to be broken."
7.
To keep his job as president of W Hotels in perspective, he tells himself, "it's still a store."
8.
Says that career pressures are almost always internal, so it's just a matter of managing those fears.
