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Celebrating 10 Wonderful and Exciting Years

By E.L. Lipman

As part of the wider set of celebrations during Employee Recognition Week, our Office today honored some long-term state employees with applause and tokens of affection for their years of state service.

I was among the honorees because, when one knits together all of the various tours of duty I have had in state government, on or around Valentine?s Day this year, the work weeks will total ten years of service.

Included above is a rather grainy photo of the lead crystal box, embossed with the state seal, which accompanied my honors today. I assumed that the state seal is featured on the top of the box so that when Mrs. Within the Scope knocks me with it, for remaining in government service so long, one will be able to read our state?s motto "L'Etoile du Nord" on my forehead?.

Even without a bruise in the shape of the state seal, there is little doubt now that I am a G-Man.... Those ten years have included a wonderful collection of assignments and days. And, I have had the special fortune to be a witness to, and a participant in, a set of remarkable improvements in state government. Sadly for Mrs. WTS, and our joint checking account, however, this was the rich reward that I was really after all along.

If those years do contain a lesson for anyone else, it is that the old aphorism is true: Find a job that you love to do and you?ll never have to work a day in your life.

Full post as published by Within the Scope on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).