say i want to be the ceo of
lockheed martin, or what did you
say?
[laughter]
marillyn: no, i started looking
for a job.
i took a job as an economist
here in washington with the
bureau of labour statistics out
of college.
they were in the midst of
redoing the producer price
index.
it was a good job for a grad
student to come in.
i actually started my career
here.
four years later, i interviewed
at several companies, one of
which was lockheed in marietta,
georgia.
i started there as a senior
industrial engineer.
david: so when you went to
marietta, georgia, you worked
your way up.
you had 22 different leadership
positions, so you must have been
moving around a lot.
marillyn: i was in marietta for
about 13 years.
18 months in, i was promoted to
supervisor in industrial
engineering.
about the two-year mark, i was
put on a general management
development program, great
credit to a sponsor that, he put
me forward for the program.
so i spent two years rotating
around the company.
and at the...