Name: Susan Helms

Title: Bookkeeper

How long have you been at TARCOG and what do you do? I’ve been here nine years and nine months. I process the payroll for TARCOG and the Senior Employment Program — and all other things accounting related.

What did you want to be when you grew up? Exactly who I am now, working in the accounting field, wife, mother and grammy. I have been so blessed and I love my life.

What do you hope to accomplish within the next year? To spend as much time with my three grandbabies (and their parents) and maybe gain another baby or two!

Who is your hero and why? My high school sweetheart AKA my husband. He continues to support me in everything I do. He’s a good listener and gives the best advice. We love spending time together and now that our children are grown, it has been a blessing watching him be a “Poppy” to our grandbabies.

If you could choose to do anything for a day, what would it be? Probably just doing a much-needed project around my home. Checking things of my “to-do” list makes me happy.

What is the best piece of advice someone has given you? I actually have two that I try to live by. The first one is if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right the first time and the second one is never put off doing something tomorrow that you can do today. Both of those can apply to my personal life and my professional life.

What’s the most daring thing you’ve ever done? This was not intentional, but while picking blackberries in a cow pasture several of us were chased by a Brahman bull, we had to wade a creek and cross under a bob-wire fence to return to our vehicle. I’m a farm girl and usually this type of thing does not scare me, but that day was very frightening!

Needless to say, we left our buckets of blackberries in the pasture and never returned for them!

Who knows you the best? I would say my husband of 40 years, we share everything.

What would you do if you won the lottery? You must play to even dream about winning and I’m too frugal to do so. I think I will just keep what I have worked for.

Congratulations Susan! Thank you for all that you do!