March 4, 2013
How I Got Here
My church has partnered with Florence Crittenton for the past few years and that’s how I originally heard of the agency. I led a Bible Study and brought people from my group to make and serve dinner for the clients. At that time, I was working in a position at a great company, but wasn’t really feeling like my job was the right fit. I started to think about what I wanted to do. I had an aha moment while serving dinner at Florence Crittenton one night and thought to myself, “I would like to work in this kitchen, teach the women about healthy food, and grow a garden.” I checked to see if there were any positions in the kitchen available at that time and there weren’t. I talked over the idea with my family and they thought it would be a perfect fit. One encouraged me to research grants and see if I could get one to fund that position. Not knowing how grants worked, I let the idea fall to the wayside and continued to look for other job opportunities. A few months later, I checked the FCS website and learned that a position had been created that included those three components! Florence Crittenton had received a grant from Walmart for that very position and I dropped off my resume with some homemade zucchini muffins. After that I was excited but intimidated because I didn’t have a degree in Nutrition and my experience in Food and Beverage wasn’t very extensive. I have loved food since I was young (I used to journal about what I ate for dinner in Middle School), I would research healthy eating in my free time, and I loved hospitality in general, but didn’t know if this would be enough to get the position. It proved to be, because I got the job a little over a year ago! I love working at Florence Crittenton: the mission of the agency, the clients and my coworkers. It’s been an amazing adventure and I can’t wait for the days to come.
Katie Bischoff, FCS Nutritional Coordinator
