Last Call

These days, people between the ages of 18 and 38 change jobs about ten times over the course of their lives, according to the Department of Labor. When workers can barely stay in one place for 5 years, imagine then, being employed in one job for almost eight decades. Even if that type of job stability existed it would be hard to find anyone these days with the attention span to do it.

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that the work ethic of a bygone era lives on in 95-year-old Angelo Cammarata who has been a bartender at Cammarata's Cafe in West View, PA. for almost all of the 77 years that he's been pouring drinks. His career began at midnight on April 7, 1933, the day Prohibition ended, at his father's grocery store. He went on to build his own bar, Cammarata's, which he eventually passed on to his sons, but where he continued to work. Now, the place is being sold to new owners, who asked Angelo to stay on. But the nonagenarian has finally decided it's time to retire and has put up a sign telling patrons last call is coming.

Makes you wonder: Did Cammarata just really love his job? Or does having a job mean something different to people of his generation? Namely, that it is a place to go to make money and feel largely content, but even if it's not all roses and even if you don't necessarily feel passionate about your work all the time, you stick it out -- because it's your job.

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