Ross Klein

About Ross

• Growing up, he was always working, starting with cleaning toilets at his uncle's gas station in Melbourne, Florida
• From there, he moved up to a job at Burger King.
• He worked his way through college by working at Sears.
• Realizing that he liked working in the retail sector, he majored in advertising and marketing.
• He feels like his career goals didn't really manifest themselves until his second or third post-college job.
• Says that the pressure of going from college straight into career is "a paradigm that needs to be broken."
• To keep his job as president of W Hotels in perspective, he tells himself, "it's still a store."
• Says that career pressures are almost always internal, so it's just a matter of managing those fears.