Sisters Niki (L) and Kacie (R). Niki was featured in a previous Customer Spotlight.
We want to introduce you to one of our customers. Meet Kacie! She lives currently lives in Pennsylvania and is a certified pharmacy technician. She has four Maggie Bags (so far) and we met her in June at the Maggie Bags Sample Sale benefiting KARM. She recently moved with her husband to Pittsburgh and we caught up with her there.
Maggie Bags: Tell us a little about your what you do for a living.
Kacie: I’m a pharmacy tech but since I just moved to Pittsburgh I’m in the process of looking for a job.
Maggie Bags: How did you get interested in that as a career?
Kacie: Last year I relocated to Asheville, North Carolina and wanted to work in a hospital. I went to school to be a medical laboratory technologist and I submitted my resume several places. I decided to volunteer at the hospital and that process alone took about three months. I was able to volunteer in the pathology lab as well as the hospital pharmacy. When I volunteered there, one of the pharmacists said that he liked my work ethic. He and others talked to the pharmacy manager and she asked if I was interested in a job. I accepted and they gave me a PTCh book to study. At that point I took the PT (pharmacy technician) test to become certified and passed it with flying colors!
Maggie Bags: I know you just moved to Pittsburgh, but you mention you relocate a lot?
Kacie: Right now we are relocating every year or so. Moves are stressful even with professional movers - things get broken and tossed around. On the flip side, we get to see the country. Since we don’t have kids right now it’s opportunity to travel a lot.
Maggie Bags: What does your husband do for a living?
Kacie: He is an industrial engineer and is enrolled in a leadership development program. That’s part of the reason we are moving a lot right now. He was one of the few selected out of several thousand who applied to participate in this program.
Maggie Bags: Which Maggie Bags do you have in your collection?
Kacie: I have a Tote of Many Colors, Diaper Bag, Campus Tote, and Bucket Tote
Maggie Bags: Any hobbies?
Kacie: I love to read. Nicholas Sparks is my favorite author. I like to play on Facebook, hike and camp. Loves to read. I also really like baking and cooking. I started learning when I was ten from my grandmother and mom. I’ve like it ever since. I actually got a full ride scholarship to Johnson & Wales but turned down because at the time I didn’t want to move. I have a few favorite recipes that are my favorites but are also secrets: a bananas foster recipe and then one for cornbread (that recipe is from my great-great grandmother.)
Maggie Bags: Next stop?
Kacie: I’m hoping to stay here about 18-24 months and then maybe we can move back closer to home.
~Laura Owens, Maggie Bags
