low_48
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I got my 25 year service pin at Caterpillar Inc. today. If I had not gone on an 11 year sabatical (started a woodworking business and worked for Woodworker's Journal Magazine) it would have been 36. That kinda haunts me as I get older, but I sure don't regret that business experience. Hope to make it a couple more years, then take the early out. Retirement there starts to get better when your age and service equals 85 points. So for right now I enjoyed the free lunch and the gold plated pin with a single small diamond. Monday it will be back to the model shop grind. It was kinda fun telling the young pups what it was like in the "old days" on the drafting table. One phone for four drafting tables, a single Wang 4 function calculator in the corner of the room, no cubicles, drafting boards as far as you could see, and engineers having to empty their ash trays at noon. Some of those guys lived on coffee and cigarettes all day, everyday. The entire complex is smoke free now. Heck, a few of the designers weren't born when I started. Yikes! Thanks for letting me ramble.