<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/winter-2001/developing-job.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Developing a Job</title><excerpt>Most people apply for specific job openings, and most employers seek to fill specific spots. But it didn’t work that way for Rowdy Montgomery ’86, the new vice president of development at R.G. Brinkmann. When he learned that the successful construction company in Chester-field, Mo., was beginning to get involved in commercial real estate development, he sensed an opportunity to create a job for himself.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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