Each Monday, The Citizen features someone from the Finger Lakes community.

This week, we spotlight Deborah Walburger of M&T Bank.

Deborah Walburger

Hometown: Manlius

Family: Husband, Rick and son, Zach

Occupation: Assistant manager and investment banker at M&T Bank in Auburn

Hobbies: Playing the violin and antiquing

Q. What is the most rewarding part of your job?

A. Helping my clients with their finances to best utilize their money.

Q. What is the most challenging aspect of your job?

A. Time management!

Q. What would be your dream job, and in what part of the world would you be working?

A. This is my dream job, and I wouldn't be working anywhere else than Auburn.

Q. What's the best way to relax after a tough day?

A. Listen to music.

Q. What do you like most about living and/or working in the Finger Lakes?

A. The people that I work with and the clients that I have as well as the changing seasons.

Q. If you had the choice of meeting any three people in the world who would they be, and why?

A. Billy Graham, because I have enormous respect for him. Don Potter, because he's an excellent musician, and Robert Wilmers (president of M&T Bank), because he moved to upstate New York, founded M&T, and look at us today.

Q. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

A. I would hope to be a regional manager at M&T Bank.

Q. If you were to win the lottery tomorrow, what's the first thing you would do?

A. It wouldn't happen, because I don't play the lottery.

Q: What would people who think they know you be most surprised to find out about you?

A. That I'm taking theology classes to eventually serve as a missionary.

Q. If you were mayor or supervisor of your town/city, what's the first thing you'd change?

A. I would make sure that all the towns and municipalities banked at M&T, because it's the best place to work and to bank. I work with a wonderful group of people.