 The thing I love most about my job is probably the people. I really enjoy everybody who I work with. My boss and all my coworkers are really great people. I enjoy coming to work every day whenever we're in the office. And then also I really enjoy working for a city that's growing really fast and it's really cool because you get to see it grow and really be a part of it. I love interacting with our citizens of Fort Worth. I love communicating with them. I love helping others. And I stand by the city's mission statement of working together to build a strong community. And that's what we do at municipal court. We make sure if you come in and take care of a ticket, you feel safe. We make you understand or make it better for you to come and take care of your ticket without being afraid. A lot of people don't like coming to court, but we greet you, the marshals, as the metal detector and we just lead you in the right direction to try to dispose of your ticket by seeing the judge. What I love most about my job is the variety of work. In government relations we interact with the state legislature and the federal legislature and the city actually goes to Austin during the legislative session, which happens every two years and participate and listen to the hearings and actually legislation that is going on in Austin that will be passed or failed that will affect the city of Fort Worth. On the federal side, we also are in tune of any legislation that will pass that will affect the city and that also involves any funding, grants that the city may receive on the federal level. For me, one of the things I love the most is the opportunity for advancement, the opportunities that surround you once you become an employee at the city. There's so many different departments and your skillset may enable you to move around and get so much diverse training and become familiar with the city as a whole. And I think for me, that was the neatest thing is that I got to see how a city works and you have no idea what it takes to run a city until you're in the middle of it. And then it's just kind of mind-boggling how all of the pieces fit together and how everyone works together to accomplish the mission that Fort Worth has set forth to be the best managed and the most livable city in the country. The idea of Fort Worth and power employees give the flexibility to do the best. Make a difference in people's lives in regards to jury duty and interact with fellow citizens of Fort Worth. What I love most would be working with the great group of team members that we have in our department. They're always so motivated and they keep me inspired every day. They always push me to do better. And I learn a lot from them. I love working with the people at the city of Fort Worth. I've not worked anywhere where there is almost an atmosphere of no stress, in my opinion. I just love the aptitude of the people at Fort Worth because everybody wants to get to know you, talk to you and interact with you and be friendly. I love it. I love working with great leaders across the city, across all departments, including executive management, as well as our external stakeholders, including our financial advisors and bond council. I think the coolest thing for me is the fact that I was raised here. So I went to school at Western Hills and I never dreamed that I would be in this position and be able to give back in this way. It's worth working for the city of Fort Worth because you make a difference. You really can, no matter where you are in the organization, you can make a difference for the community that you live in and I think that's an amazing opportunity. I love the fact that I was born and raised in the city of Fort Worth and that now I get to work in the place that I was brought up. I love the people in Fort Worth. I've traveled all over and I just feel like people from Fort Worth are so very welcoming and kind and I love the city and it's just the Fort Worth way to be so welcoming. Because there's longevity in working for the city. I've been here for 15 years and I plan to be here for a little bit longer but there's longevity. There's opportunities within the city to move within departments if you would like to or growth for improvement in your own job. And also the benefits are pretty good as well. Into preservation and urban design, Fort Worth is actually on the cutting edge of both disciplines. We are probably one of the foremost urban design. We have one of the foremost urban design programs at a city anywhere in the state and probably also the United States and we're one of the more forward thinking preservation programs in the country so if you're into preservation and urban design this is the best place to be especially with all of the urban growth coming to Fort Worth. We're one of the fastest growing cities in the country and that presents a lot of opportunities for urban design and making sure the built environment is what the citizens want it to be and so you know if you want to come here and do urban design and urban planning we'd love to have you. The coolest thing about being a city and Fort Worth employee is just serving the community, seeing the smiles on their faces and making their lives a lot better within the Parks and Recreation Department. I think that the coolest thing about working for the city of Fort Worth is that there's just so many opportunities. If you don't know much you can come here start working with the city they will reimburse you for tuition. You can have exercise classes they have they want you to get healthy there are discounts there's just so many benefits and awesome resources available to our employees. The coolest thing about being a city of Fort Worth employee is the opportunity for advancement so supervisors if you have a great supervisor they will help coach and counsel and figure out what you want to do when you grow up and they give you that opportunity to receive training to participate in tuition reimbursement flex your schedule so then that way you can take some classes during the day or during your lunch hour and then flex it during the evening and so I was very fortunate enough to have a great supervisor that allowed me to do that. What I love most about my job is definitely the people that I get to meet again kind of you know out in the communities getting to meet the neighborhood associations community development organizations I get to meet some of the people that are most passionate about Fort Worth whether that's at the neighborhood level or if it's at you know the official level big organizations and really getting to hear the visionaries and the movers and shakers here in the city I get all the time get to just access them and hear what they want to do and work alongside of them and honestly it's such a privilege. One of the coolest things about being a city employee is that I represent the city of Fort Worth as so when I was coming in I'm an ambassador I represent the city so that's one of the cooler things that I've known since I've been working for the city is I have different options to take advantage of within the city working with community centers having different discounts of taking taking advantage of different activities that the city provides for us like employee appreciation day that's pretty cool that the city provides for us as employees I'm able to attend and mingle with other city employees and let them know how much how great everything feels working for the city. I love the fact that my work and the work of my coworkers touches people's lives every single day in Fort Worth and surrounding communities it's nice to know that people rely on our water you know and then that's a huge responsibility and we know that but it's again it's nice to know that a person is safe drinking our water that a fire was set out using our water that our economy is thriving and it all comes back to having water that is safe and reliable. Because City of Fort Worth is a big city in Texas and the United States so they're unlimited like opportunities and challenging here so it's just so exciting to work on so many large-scale and interesting projects which you won't get a chance to work on if you are in other smaller cities and also City of Fort Worth have a wonderful staff team so other city employees are so dedicated and we work together as a team to contribute and better serve the entire city. What I love most about my job is the opportunity to work with a variety of departments within the City of Fort Worth as well as our external customers such as nonprofits and also consider myself an advocate not only for city staff but for our citizens as well. It has been my pleasure and honor to work for the City of Fort Worth. I joke with people and say if I can just keep doing what I'm doing I'll stay here forever. I don't see myself ever retiring but if I did Fort Worth is going to take care of me. We have the best benefits. They have a retirement program in place and I know this for a fact because most of my family are all retired from the City of Fort Worth. We go back 50 plus years of service to this department. I have family that are now still working for the city and then I have people that have retired. It doesn't feel like a job. I get to come to the library every day and hang out with people that choose to come to the library. So I get to help them with their resumes or go fix something that's wrong with their account or help someone figure out how to use their cell phone. I get to help people. What I love most about my job is definitely the connections we make with our community, our neighbors and our visitors. I am a true believer that learning also happens outside of the classroom so making sure we provide meaningful programming that will help the families, caregivers have a lifelong learning experience is just simply amazing. I think the coolest thing about being a City of Fort Worth employee is the rewarding nature of it. It's a community of people collaborating together to overcome our daily challenges and the goals that we set out for our organization and because of that I find a lot of community outcomes with it. What I love most about my job, really I've always loved my job. I've been doing real property management for the last 16 years. It didn't matter where I was working. I always loved that job. What makes this different with the City of Fort Worth and the aviation department is we have a team here. Everybody knows their job. Everybody does their job and if somebody needs help there's no problem. Somebody comes and helps us. One of the coolest things here at the airport I get to see huge planes come in and land celebrities come in, Air Force ones come in. It's exciting to see. The coolest thing about being a City of Fort Worth employee is the fact that I work with people that I can consider my neighbors. We all collectively choose to try to keep our city clean, keep our city safe and what we try to do is we work together collectively to try to ensure that by providing a fair treatment to all those residents by making sure that everyone is being helped the way that I would like to be helped because that's the way that we see each other. We see each other as residents first and then employees second. The City of Fort Worth is a huge investment for yourself, for your family, for your career. So that's the thing that I love about the city. I have seen people that started 10, 15 years ago working as cleaning the clarifiers and now they are the assistant superintendents. So that's what fascinates me about the City of Fort Worth is that the potential of growth that you have to go different places within the city. I'm going to say technology. For many years we talk about AMI and it's finally here. We're 97% completed as of today and AMI has completely changed the way we do business. We have so much information. We have so much data that we can utilize to better help our customers. They have so much information that they can plan their usage, they can see their usage. They can see if they have a leak, if they have a problem. So I'm fascinated with AMI right now and all the things that we can do to again better help our customers. What I love most about my job is not only am I developing my career but I get to do so while contributing to my community. It's worth working for the City of Fort Worth because there are so many opportunities that you can get involved with. There's the legal department, there's the city management, there's parks and recs, there's development services. So there's different avenues that you can be a part of with the city. One of the cool things about being an employee for the City of Fort Worth and I'm an animal control is I come across all kinds of animals. It's very interesting, very cool and there's just a lot of opportunities in the city to do a wide variety of things that are fun and interesting. It's worth working at the City of Fort Worth not only because of the benefits but you get to positively impact people's lives and again just back to contributing to the place where we live, where we get to enjoy. I just, I love my home and I want to make a difference here. Cool thing about being a City of Fort Worth employee is that I get to, especially in Fort Worth Convention Center is that I get to see a variety of events from different backgrounds and cultures. I get to experience all the diversity of the world right in one building. I think one of my favorite things about my job is being able to serve the community of Fort Worth and its citizens through these events. These events are first-time events. There are things that they come to year after year. They're exciting experiences, they're a time of celebration and fun and no matter what type of event it is we get to be present and help them have the best experience possible.