Featured Employee: Jorge Salinas Escareno

by | Jan 7, 2014 | Market News

Employee Name:  Jorge Salinas Escareno

Number of years of service at Pahl’s:
16 Years

Briefly describe your job duties at Pahl’s:
Prepare and plant seeds in the fields.  Maintain, operate and clean mechanical equipment and farm machinery.  Supervise crew workers.

What is the most rewarding part of your job?
The satisfaction of the high quality product we grow and the consumers enjoyment of it.

Tell us about your family
I have two daughters – Gina is 20 and Jennifer is 7, two sons – Jorge Jr. is 13 and Alexander is 6, and my wife Alejandra – who are everything to me.

What is your favorite time of day/day of the week/month of the year? Why?
My birthday because it is when my God gives me another year of life.

What is your favorite indoor/outdoor activity?
Watching movies with my family either at home or at the theatre.

What is the farthest you have been away from home? 
When I went to Houston, TX and took a fairy to Galveston, TX and saw dolphins in the sea.

What are three things on your “Bucket List” ?
Having my own home, seeing my kids graduate from college and seeing my kids make a life for themselves.

What do you miss most about being a kid?
I miss my Mothers care and also my school.

If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?
To read and write in English

What was the first thing you bought with your own money?
I bought myself some shoes and a bicycle

If you could choose anyone, who would you pick to be your mentor? Why?
Benito Juarez because he was a liberator and was a President that did a lot for Mexico.

If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do?
Buy a house for my family and give my kids money for school.

Which celebrity do you get mistaken for?
People think I look like Jean Claude Van Damme.

What is your all time favorite movie?
The Fast and Furious movies and Olympus Has Fallen

What song do you play the most often?
I like the song “Tristes Recuerdos”

What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
I lost my parents.

 

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2 Comments

  1. Oleg

    Jorge, I wish you to win lottery and get a nice big house for your family, because you’re a nice hardworking man. Good luck, bud!!!
    Jorge, me gustaría que gane la lotería y obtener una casa grande y bonita para su familia, porque usted es un hombre muy trabajador agradable. Buena suerte, amigo!

    Reply
    • Tim S

      Jorge, You are the man.

      Reply

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