20 Questions is our new, fun blog series here at BIZPORT where we take a few minutes to get to know our favorite team members a little better. Meet Julie Kirby, Manager Finance + Administration. Not only is Julie one of the most fun employees at BIZPORT with a terrific sense of humor, she was also our 2019 Manager of the Year.
- What is your greatest fear?
Snakes.
- What is your greatest fear?
- Where is your favorite place to be?
Pretty much, anywhere outside.
- Where is your favorite place to be?
- Where is the best place you’ve traveled to and why?
Germany – traveled back to the place where I was born…yes, I am an Army Brat.
- Where is the best place you’ve traveled to and why?
- What would you do (for a career) if you weren’t doing this?
Being a “picker” – buying and selling “junque” – one man’s junk, is another man’s treasure.
- What would you do (for a career) if you weren’t doing this?
- Do you have a favorite line from a movie?
“You’re gonna shoot your eye out.”
- Do you have a favorite line from a movie?
- Tell us something that might surprise us about you.
I play softball 7 months out of the year.
- Tell us something that might surprise us about you.
- If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?
Learn a (or more) foreign language – not just being able to count to ten in several.
- If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?
- What are 3 words you’d use to describe BIZPORT?
Innovative, professional, personal-touch.
- What are 3 words you’d use to describe BIZPORT?
- If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do?
If I won today – Sorry Bizport, but I would retire and travel.
- If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do?
- When you have 30 minutes of free-time, how do you pass the time?
Being outside soaking up the sun.
- When you have 30 minutes of free-time, how do you pass the time?
- What’s your favorite indoor/outdoor activity?
working in the garden/yard.
- What’s your favorite indoor/outdoor activity?
- What does true leadership mean to you?
Developing someone’s potential by equipping them with the right tools, fairness, and consistency.
- What does true leadership mean to you?
- What has been the most important innovation you have witnessed in your lifetime?
TV dinners – from the foiled wrapped of the ’60s to all of the microwavable products we have today…it was the beginning of our “throw-away” society.
- What has been the most important innovation you have witnessed in your lifetime?
- If you could do another job for just one day, what would it be?
President of the United States.
- If you could do another job for just one day, what would it be?
- What would you most like to tell yourself at age 12?
Don’t start smoking.
- What would you most like to tell yourself at age 12?
- What was the last experience that made you a stronger person?
A health scare earlier this year.
- What was the last experience that made you a stronger person?
- What is the first concert you attended?
Saying the Richmond Symphony doesn’t count – it would be Def Leppard or AC/DC.
- What is the first concert you attended?
- What is your favorite movie?
There are many, but I’ll say The Christmas Story.
- What is your favorite movie?
- What chore do you absolutely hate doing?
Washing dishes.
- What chore do you absolutely hate doing?
- If you had to eat one meal, every day for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Some sort of meat and a salad.
