Donald Alvis Food Services Food Production Worker II

First Job: working at a grocery store

Birthplace: Madera, CA

Years at EOC: almost one year

Best advice ever received: “Shut your mouth and work.”

Favorite restaurant, dish, or pig-out food: pizza

Proudest moment: getting off parole and graduating culinary school

Greatest personal accomplishment: getting my life back on track

Best vacation I’ve taken/dream vacation: none yet

Favorite weekend activity: working at my second job and going to the Swap Meet

Last good movie I saw: any Saw movie

Scariest experience: getting in a car accident while in the mountains

If I had a million dollars I would … keep working and buy a house.

Favorite place to shop: anywhere cheap

Words that describe me best: energetic

I like to watch: anything good on TV

In my spare time … I work on my car.

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it is … to be proud of who you are and not who/what others want you to be.