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Senior Center Worker Celebrates 50 Years on the Job Without Using a Single Sick Day

Tom McKievick says his job is challenging yet entertaining, a good combination for a perspective career. Yet when he saw the newspaper ad for the job at Fredericka Manor senior living community in Chula Vista, California, all the way back in 1976, he wasn’t intending to embark...

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