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Do you have a favorite quote? “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison
What did you do before landing your job with the city? Went to college. I was a fulltime athlete in college and did not really have time to work a real job. What made you choose your career path? I could give you the typical “hard work, dedication, drive, etc.” and all of that would be true, but honestly, a lot of it came down to luck! I started with the City on the back of a garbage truck because I needed a job. It was fun, but I wasn’t going to do it forever. Then I got promoted up to Heavy Equipment Operator and that was a very fun job. As long as you could handle your business there was minimal supervision needed, you could speak with members of the community and make their day better by just taking 5 minutes to have a genuine conversation with them. After doing that for a while I started looking at other career paths and got offered the position of Manger of Municipal and Community Services by my former director, Steve Bates, and the rest is history.
What do you love about your job? It is what I love most and despise most to be honest, the unpredictability. With overseeing so many different divisions you never know what you are going to be doing. You could come in and be in a suit and tie and have meetings with administration or I could come in and have to jump on a brush truck and help them get caught up after a storm (which doesn’t happen very often), or going down to the Animal Shelter and help load up a pig that was adopted (That was about a month ago). What do you find most interesting about Weatherford? Well, I was born and raised here, so I have been able to see a lot of the growth that has gone on in the town. But, even with the growth Weatherford has been able to keep its close-knit community feel. It is hard to go out at lunch and not run into somebody you know or went to school with.
Do you have any personal goals for yourself?
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Well, by the time this gets published I will be a first-time father, so the biggest goal I have for myself will be to be good at that. Hopefully I only drop my son once, because we are all given one free drop, right!?
