When Angie walked away from her role as a bank operations manager, she was craving something different. After eight years of high-stress work at Regions Bank, she was ready for a change of pace.
“It was very stressful,” she says. “A couple of people I worked with had already left. One went to the State Attorney’s Office. Another came here, to the Clerk’s Office.”
So, when an opening popped up in the Clerk’s Office, Angie took the leap. It wasn’t the finance job she had hoped for. It was in child support. Still, she was eager to get her foot in the door.
“I figured something in finance might open up down the road,” she says. “And I was right. It just took a few years.”
Angie spent five years learning the ropes in child support. The world of court documents and case files was completely new. Everything was still paper-based back then. Every court trip meant flipping through thick files, checking for accuracy.
“Now it’s all electronic,” she says with a laugh. “Back then, you had to dig through the files. It was a lot.”
Eventually, a position in finance opened. The team knew Angie had a finance background. She went through the interview process and got the job.
“It felt like what I had been waiting for,” she says.
Angie is now part of the finance team for the Clerk’s Office. Officially, her role is accounts payable, but it covers a wide range of tasks.
“I don’t have the high volume like BCC finance,” she explains. “But I do a lot of reporting and reconciling. Refunds, vendor payments, memberships, legal fees, that kind of thing.”
It’s different from banking. “The debits and credits work opposite,” she laughs. “I had to unlearn a few things.”
But the core of the job—the numbers, the structure, the consistency—is familiar and rewarding.
“Our team is small, but we support each other,” she says. “If someone’s out, we all jump in. Daily deposits have to happen no matter what.”
Angie is known across the Clerk’s Office as a go-to person. Not because she knows everything—but because she knows how to find the answer.
“Finance interacts with everybody,” she explains. “And that’s a good thing.”
“I may not have all the info, but I usually know where to look,” she says. “And I try to be helpful. People come to me, and I do what I can.”
Angie has called St. Augustine home since 2000. And she spends most of her spare time with her 7-year-old granddaughter.
“She’s my world,” Angie says, smiling. “We walk to the park, play on the field, go see the ducks. I try to fill her school breaks with fun stuff.”
Her daughter and granddaughter live with her, and her son lives just down the street. “I feel lucky,” she says. “We’re all close.”
Though she loves the beach, she admits she doesn’t get there as often as she’d like. “Most of my time outside work goes to my granddaughter,” she says. “And I wouldn’t trade that for anything.”
What keeps Angie at the Clerk’s Office isn’t just the job itself, it’s peace of mind.
“Compared to corporate America, this is just… comfortable,” she says. “You still have to work hard and build relationships, but there’s a level of stability here.”
She knows the work she does matters. “At the end of the day, I can go home knowing I did what was expected,” she says. “Then I wake up, check my email, and tackle whatever comes next.”
