Twenty-Five Years Begins

I started my 25th year at my job yesterday. In the last 24 years, I’ve held 5 titles, reported to 5 buildings, and had10 offices. I’ve been located in a basement of a mansion that tended to flood in heavy rains, an old examining room of a medical clinic (in that office, I had my very own porcelain sink complete with a mirror), a strip mall, a factory, and now a 60s era school building that sits on a one-block street in the middle of a south Toledo neighborhood. I’ve had supervisors for many years, one for over a decade, and supervisors for just a few years. I stayed home for what we all as government employees thought was going to be a week or two max during the COVID 19 pandemic that turned out to be 26 months. Through it all, I’ve interacted with hundreds of individuals of all abilities, been through union strife and office politics, and somehow I am still able to say I look forward to going to work. Here’s to another year.