Employee Spotlight | September, 2017 | Moose!

From our 2017 archive. This interview with Moose, our assistant bookkeeper at the time, is excerpted from the original conversation.

What is your position and how long have you worked for French Broad Chocolates?

I’m our Assistant Bookkeeper and I started last March, so it’s been one and a half years. I also go to UNCA-  I graduate this winter with a BS in Global Business.

Why do you like working here?

I enjoy working with small businesses, and I really love the culture, it’s something that needs to be built over time, you can’t buy it. I enjoy the people here and that French Broad Chocolates treats the environment and its employees well.

What are you currently reading/listening to?

I’m reading a bunch of textbooks, my favorite is Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization. My favorite short story is called The Egg by Andy Weir. It says that we are everyone, everything that you’ve done harmful to someone, you’ve done to yourself and everything you’ve done that’s good, you’ve done to yourself. I’m also reading The Gift Of Fear by Gavin de Becker- it’s about how our instinct and intuition are a gift. I’m reading it as part of a self-defense class I’m taking at UNCA, we discuss how to be safe and go into the gym and practice self-defense moves. For music, I’m always listening to Kendrick Lamar, I even have a plant at home named Kendrick, it’s a money tree!

What else are you into?

I’m into art- I love to paint! I’ve been busy lately but I’m getting back into it. I love to travel, over the summer I went to Budapest, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona and all over Morocco. I especially loved Budapest,  it was my first time traveling overseas, the architecture is beautiful and you can walk everywhere. I went to a thermal spa and we hiked around the city, rode trains and ate so much food -  I really loved the döner kebab. Surprisingly we didn’t get lost

What is your go-to form of self care?

Water. Going to my hometown in Coastal NC, hiking to a waterfall, I seek out water everywhere.

What’s your favorite place to go in Asheville?

I love Yacht Club -  there are always interesting people there, and the food is good -  I like to get the Yacht Club Club - my favorite beer is Highwire Brown but sometimes I mix it up with Dos Equis

What is your favorite French Broad Chocolates treat?

I’m actually not that into sweets but I love our Vanilla Cheesecake with Almond Crust - It’s one of my favorite things in life, I have fond memories of eating Cheesecake and watching Golden Girls with my grandma, I watch Golden Girls every night before I fall asleep.

What are you most excited about right now?

Graduating! I’m so excited! I’ve worked really hard and have had ups and downs but I didn’t stop and I’m getting it!