Keith Baggett:  

After graduation, I chose to remain here in Jonesboro and kicked around for a year mowing yards and taking life easy. In 1982, I got a job working at Western Sizzlin Steak House, starting at the bottom washing dishes but after a few years, I worked up to cook and then finally, meatcutter, a position I kept for almost 13 years. It was also during my time at Western Sizzlin where I met my future wife, Connie, and it's when I began my 2nd career as an EMT with Emerson Ambulance Service. I had always been interested in the medical field and in early 1989, I took the class and was hired by Emersons in August of 89. Now, here it is over 19 years later and I'm still working there and enjoying it very much. By 1996, I began making plans for a career change, trying to get out of the restaurant field and into something with more opportunities. So, in August of 96, I was hired to work as a 911 Dispatcher at the Jonesboro PD. It was difficult to leave Western and all the friends I had made but I knew it was the right time to go and I cut my final steaks on Dec. 16th, 1996. By my account, in my 13 years as meatcutter, I probably cut between 1 and 2 million...Expand for more