Florine Porter Employment & Training/Workforce Connection Customer Service Specialist

First Job: Kays Dress Shop on Fulton Mall

Birthplace: Exeter, CA

Years at FCEOC: 11 ½ years

Best advice ever received: Pray, it works!

Favorite advice I give: Pray, it works! (It really does)

Favorite restaurant, dish, or pig-out food: r eal home-style Mexican food

Proudest moment: I have many but the latest was when my granddaughter was born

Greatest personal accomplishment: buying my first home

Best vacation I’ve taken/dream vacation: my 13-day Mediterranean cruise in 2005

Favorite weekend activity: Thrift shopping

Last good movie I saw: Idle Wild

Scariest experience: coming home from work and my house had been broken into

If I had a million dollars I would … pay my tithes and help some family members.

Favorite place to shop: Avenue and JC Penny

Favorite childhood memory: Playing with my Pop bottle dolls

Words that describe me best: Respectful, honest, trusting, fun and God fearing

I like to watch: Oprah and any good show

In my spare time … I s ing with the local community choir and go out of town at least once a month.

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it is … you can’t beat Gods giving.