Had breakfast this morning with an old union freight hauler.

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4. It's a real rites of passage when you actually become one of the old guys.

When I started my first real, full time job there was an old dude named Jack that I was assigned to. There were 4 new grads and each were assigned to a mentor. I lucked out as Jack was a cool old guy who knew everything, was extremely smart but was also very laid back. You would hear ‘go ask Jack’ several times a day in the hallways. He had saved up enough vacation days to take every Friday off at that point. He had been a bachelor most of his life until just a few years earlier he married and was now in a whole new world. Anyway, one day when I was about 50 and had worked for that same large company for nearly 30 years I realized I was now Jack. It was a sobering moment but also an important milestone. I did my best to carry on Jack’s legacy.