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A Conversation with Entergy's Vicki Harris
05/15/2016
Vicki Harris is a category leader associate III with Entergy’s strategic sourcing generation department. She joined Entergy two years ago as a procurement specialist at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station. She has one daughter, Dre Harris, who is studying business management at The University of Southern Mississippi.
She was born and raised in Mississippi
I was born and mostly raised in Sumrall – a relatively small city just northwest of Hattiesburg. It’s the type of community where your neighbors are friends and/or family. I have a pretty large immediate and extended family, and our home seemed to always be filled with family and friends. Growing up was quite an exciting adventure, and there was something interesting going on all of the time. I still visit often because my mother still lives in the home we lived in from the time I was a teenager.
The best work related advice she’s received
Every day, I live by three professional rules I was taught over the years:
- Take your time to do it right the first time.
- Never submit work that you are not satisfied with and proud to call your own.
- Change is inevitable, so continue to grow personally, educationally and professionally.
Her proudest moment
There are two things in my life that make me the proudest:
- Hearing my parents brag about me; it shows me that I have made them proud.
- When my daughter tells me she loves me and that I’ve helped her shape what she wants to accomplish in life.
They make me feel bigger than life sometimes, yet ground me at the same time.
Counting her blessings has changed her life
When I began counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. When I look back over my live, I don’t want to say, “I could have, should have, would have.” I want to say, “I did!”
Her parents are her heroes
My parents are my heroes because they, through the commitment to each other and their children, planted the idea of “possibility” in each of us.
My mom and dad raised eight children to be intelligent, hard-working individuals. They laid foundations for each of us to find our own individual paths in life and to be the best of ourselves; not to compare ourselves to the next person, but to compare ourselves to whom we were yesterday and strive each hour, each day to be better. These are the ideals that I continue to carry with me today and have instilled in my daughter.
Pictured: Gwendolynn Harris-Cocroft (sister), Vicki Harris, Gloria Garner (sister), Julius Harris (brother), mother Erma and Beverly Harris-Edmon (sister).
