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Today marks 30 years since my first day of paid employment as a public servant. On 12 March 1997 I began working 3.5 hours a week as a library assistant for a take home pay of $60 which used to be handed to me in cash in a small brown envelope.

How things have changed.

I rarely carry cash anymore, and certainly wouldn’t want to receive my pay that way. Not to mention the fact that I’m almost never in the office and the post is always slow now they’ve cut delivery days.

When I started that job I knew I wanted a career in libraries but not that I would basically work for only two institutions over a 30 year period.

That sounds tedious, but it absolutely hasn’t been. Thirty years on I still love my job.

Here’s to many more anniversaries to come.