Library Limelight: Steve Davis, Facilities Technician

Library Limelight is intended to be a quick read to help FCPL patrons get to know our librarians, staff, and volunteers. We hope you enjoy learning about the people who make our libraries great!

Name: Steve Davis
Position: Facilities Technician
Location: All FCPL Locations

Where is your hometown? 

I grew up in Marietta, GA, but I now live in Jasper, GA.

How long have you been at FCPL?

This June will be 2 years.

What other jobs have you had at FCPL?

This is the only job I have held with FCPL

Why did you choose to work in a library?

I thought that FCPL would be a good place to use my vast skill set I have acquired over my working lifetime.

Describe your job in five words or less.

Something different every day.

What is unique about your job?

A facilities technician needs to be totally flexible and able to swap directions at any second.

What is your favorite part of your job?

Getting to do something different every day. One day I’m doing electrical work, the next day it’s plumbing or HVAC repairs. Or I may be driving a truck, running the courier route. Some days it’s all of these in the same day.

 

What’s the most interesting place you’ve lived or traveled?

So far, I have only traveled in the USA. I feel blessed to have been able to stand on the peak of a 14,000 ft. mountain in the Rocky Mountains and see for miles and miles the beauty that is America. I’ve been 1000 feet straight down underground in a Colorado gold mine. I’ve wandered the Anasazi Cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde and looked down at the incredible Hoodoos of Bryce Canyon in Utah. And even though I have seen it several times, nothing can beat the awe-inspiring grandeur of the Grand Canyon.

What are your hobbies?

Travel, riding ATVs, hunting, researching family genealogy, collecting custom-made knives. I also like building things just to see if I can.

What are you reading right now?

Most of the time it’s technical books about how to build or work on something but I just recently finished The Red Days by FCPL’s own young budding author, Kathryn Wyvern, and found it to be a really good read.

Paper books, eBooks, or audiobooks?

Paper, but a good Audiobook on a long road trip sure makes the time go by faster.

Is there anything else you’d like to share?

Working in facilities I get to interact with staff from all departments and over the last year and a half I have come to learn how smart, talented, and passionate about their jobs the staff at FCPL really are. It makes me proud to say I work for FCPL.