I came into this world at a time when it was expected that a person would spend his entire life working for the same employer. A lot of things have changed since then. The influences of the intervening decades have changed the workplace and the expectations of both employers and employees.

After I graduated from Ithaca College, my family and friends expected that I would remain in Poughkeepsie, NY and work at IBM or the Post Office, just like many of them had done before me. I had other ideas. I went to New York City and got a job with New York Telephone as a Service Representative. I was excited to be starting a new life in the city and was looking forward to getting a paycheck after many years of college.

I was promoted after a couple of years and really enjoyed my job. Then came the break-up of the Bell System and life was never the same. I was moved over to AT&T where I moved from NY to California and back to NY again. Finally, in 1998, AT&T made an early retirement offer that I could not refuse.

After 19 years, I found myself with no job and decided it was time that I took charge of my own future. After decades of going where I was needed for my employer, now I went where I wanted.

I returned to the Bay Area.

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