This is a great country – I tell myself that every day when I fly the flag on the flagpole in the front of the house.
The principles of our freedoms and rights are spelled out in the US Constitution, which has guided this country for 244 years, the method for electing the president is specially stated in the Constitution, each state getting a number of electors equal to the number of congressional representatives they have, which means that each vote counts equally regardless of size of the state you are in. This has worked beautifully for 244 years.
Today I celebrate my 46th anniversary in the Company. It is hard to believe on this day in 1974 I walked into the office of George B. Buck Consulting Actuaries – the original company that had several corporate transactions over all those years, which today is known as Conduent, Inc.
Buck Consultants was spun off last year as a separate company. I am with the Outsourcing Group under the corporate umbrella.
Times are a lot different than they were back when I started working – we had huge calculators on our desks and had to fill out forms for keypunchers to load programs to the computer, you got punch cards you could bring back to rerun or adjust the program to fit your client’s needs.
Today you do everything on a computer, tablet or phone, you carry the phone with you wherever you go.
I first worked in Manhattan, 2 Penn Plaza which was adjacent to Madison Square Garden, in 1986 I moved to the newly opened office in Secaucus and moved to our current residence in western Morris County, New Jersey.
It has been a long and fruitful career – I have taken several good friends from these working years. I continue to work a part time schedule and help the team with major projects and assist them as issues that come along. This fits nicely into my schedule.
At this writing there are two vaccines that are in final stages of review and should be ready for distribution later this year and into next year. These new vaccines are genetically created which allowed for faster development.
Congratulations on such a long and fruitful career! What you’ve done, is no easy achievement. You seem to take everything you do, and succeed at it all. That says a lot about you and why you are loved by so many people. Living life to the fullest.
Congrats! So proud of you!