Meet our Team Members:
Every month we will be selecting a team member for our Employee Spotlight.
This month we are introducing Ashley Jenkins. She is a Communications Training Specialist that works for our MedCom Dispatch Center and has been working for Greenville County EMS since 2017.
What is your favorite quote, saying, or motto?
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with a little rain.” – Dolly Parton
What is your greatest achievement in life so far?
Working my way up the career ladder by becoming a Training Specialist at a young age.
What is your #1 pet peeve?
Oh goodness…. that would defiantly have to be people scraping their teeth across metal utensils.
What is your most memorable moment in your EMS career?
Talking a lady and her husband through delivering their baby boy over the phone before FD and EMS arrived on scene at midnight on New Year’s.
What is your favorite movie or play?
Sweet Home Alabama
What would constitute a perfect EMS crew member?
I believe that a perfect EMS crew member would be someone who is compassionate and has a strong work ethic and will go into every call with an open mind.
What is your best kept secret?
I am very good at understanding and interpreting southern dialects.
What would you consider your worst habit?
I’m super impatient with certain things.
Greatest inspiration in your life?
My parents are definitely my greatest inspiration. They both work full time jobs and have raised 4 children and have fostered multiple children throughout the years and never gave up.
What is your favorite food item?
Any type of Mexican food.
What would be considered luxury to you?
Owning a lake home on Lake Keowee with a dock for my boat.
If you could meet anyone in the history of the world, who and why?
I would absolutely love to meet Dolly Parton. She seems to be the sweetest person and doesn’t let the fact that she has become famous effect where she came from.
What would your epitaph say?
“Live to the fullest, for life is all too short”
What is your favorite type of music?
Anything Country
Where would you like to grow old?
My hometown here in Travelers Rest, SC