Julia Kirby

I have embraced the term "Jack of all trades," because my interests and hobbies are just as varied as my background.  Before landing on my current (and hopefully last!) career as a full-time, licensed Realtor with AgentOwned Realty, I spent about a dozen or so years in the Culinary World.  Before, during and after receiving an education at Johnson & Wales University, I worked in just about every single aspect of the business from waitressing and bartending to cooking and catering.  In 1998, I began a new and admittedly challenging, endeavor as the owner of a my own restaurant, called "That's Amore".  Although, it was a realatively small place on the surface, it luckily became quite popular over time and kept me extremely busy over the next four years.  Along the way, I met a tremendous amount of wonderful (and a few not so wonderful) people, cooked up some great Italian dishes, perfected the art of the "pizza toss", and trudged my way through the well famed trials and errors of restaurant ownership.  I learned very quickly that being the boss was not nearly as glamorous or as fun as I'd imagined it to be. I'd always had a passion for food and cooking, but the idea of spending the rest of my life slaving away in a hot kitchen and working around the clock to tend to all of my responsiblities became a good bit more than I had bargained for, and my passion for the business began to slip away little by little. Being quite young at the time, and giving up many of the freedoms that I'd previoulsy taken for granted; I decided that it was time to move on from restaurant ownership and continue my educational pursuits.