Mr. Norman, my first job on the PRR, and in the industry. was as a carload trace clerk in the office of the New England Sales Manager in Boston, which, with a staff of 17, plus three subordinate District Sales Offices in other cities, was responsible for freight and passenger sales (this was 1956) throughout New England.
The first question in the interview was, "are you willing to relocate?" (If the answer was no, it was also the last question in the interview.) I subsequently held a succession of management positions in Sales and Marketing in New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New York, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. They meant it. The idea was that that was how you learned the railroad, and the overall policy in both Sales and Operations was that you didn't get promoted in place; a promotion meant a move.