At Work With

At Work With ... Ruby Weber, owner of Please & Thankyou

debmarkham — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:40:23 -0500

While in school, I developed my love for sales and marketing. I worked part time at Thom McCann shoes. At age 18, they made me a retail store manager. Back in 1974, I was making about $40,000 a year.

At Work With ... Lee Walker Shepherd, gingerbread house creator

debmarkham — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:55:34 -0500

Every year, my two children and I would go to the Williamsburg Inn and enjoy the gingerbread houses in the windows. And I wanted to create something that was not just a prefab kind that didn’t smell like any spices. We wanted to bake one.

At Work With ... Kelli Hunter Beamon, chief executive and coach

debmarkham — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:53:49 -0500

When I was in college, I coached a recreation squad. Then, out of college, I continued to teach dance, and I coached some recreation teams. And then I started a team at the elementary school in Richmond, where I was teaching.

At Work With ... Kimberly Holland, administrative assistant

debmarkham — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:12:05 -0500

It was one of those nice surprises in life, where you think for so long, “I’m going to do this after I get out of school. I’ll be in this kind of role, in this city,” and that’s not how it ended up for me. With a lot of people, what you think you’re going into, it doesn’t end up being that way.

Dwight Handforth ... office services manager

Tracie.L — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:10:42 -0500

My dad was a supply corps officer in the Navy, and we moved frequently when I was growing up. We lived in six states and Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, and every time we moved, we drove across the country, so I got to see a lot of national parks.

At Work With ... Ervin Mullins, senior piermaster

Tracie.L — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:00:39 -0500

As far as the coal business goes on the railroad, I’ve had some experience from mine to market.

At Work With ... Leticia Feliciano, president Doma Technologies

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:36:02 -0400

I worked with JAG at the naval operating base in Norfolk. I decided to get out of the Marines because I wanted to settle down and I didn't want to do so much traveling. I wanted to get married and have kids. I decided to stay here and worked with a legal firm. There was an overabundance of paperwork. Its cases were stacked; they had rooms full of paper.

At Work With ... Bobby Semon, party clown

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:46:25 -0400

When I was a kid growing up in Chicago, I wanted to be a singer but just didn't have the voice. So when someone offered me $15 to dress up as a clown at a picnic, I jumped at the offer. I was 13 then, and I have been clowning ever since.

At Work With ... Moss Beecroft, founder of men's stores

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:01:00 -0400

I enjoyed clothing. It appealed to me all the way through high school. Not from a sales stand point, but just from wearing it. We wore jeans to school one day a week just because it was different. No one wore jeans in those days.

At Work With... Peggy Doyle, lifeguard

debmarkham — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:28:11 -0400

I became certified as a lifeguard in January 2007. At that point in time I was interested in entering the work force again and I just didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was regularly lap-swimming here, at the Northside Pool. That’s when I found out they offered American Red Cross lifeguard training courses.