Since the start of 2026, throwback photos and stories reminiscing on life in 2016 have flooded just about everyone’s feed on social media. However, News 4 and KABB TV personality Joy Burgin may have the most San Antonio story of all.
In a Facebook post, the traffic anchor and San Antonio native shared that 10 years ago, her career trajectory started at H-E-B. A graduate of Brandeis High School and the University of Incarnate Word, Burgin posted a split photo with one half showing her high school self ready to clock in for her first job at the grocery store, and the other her current self sitting behind the anchor desk.
“I loved it,” Burgin said. “You know … a lot of times, when you work a job … especially a restaurant job, it’s like, it ruins the restaurant for me. Can’t go back now that I’ve seen behind the scenes. But H-E-B is so the opposite. It was a perfect job. You work, and then you pick up everything you need, and you go home. It was so simple.”…