For many of us, our working years were the heydays or prime years of our lives. We look back fondly on those years, as a time when our kids were growing up and going to school, as we went off to our offices or field assignments, working towards our common goals of caring for those most important in our lives.
The 25 or 40 years that many of us spent during our careers together – and yes, I mean together – truly fill our memories as some of the greatest days of our lives.
When I think back to those working years, some of the most valuable experiences were the relationships and friendships that were developed. Over decades working together, we each brought home stories of colleagues, who were our extended work family, to share at the dinner table. Those conversations, lessons and laughter about our work experiences helped shape our families.
Now as our Association of BellTel Retirees is celebrating 25 years it has become an important connection point to that past. It is perhaps a strong connection to our shared past for Ma Bell’s orphans and all of our “cousins.”
The BellTel retiree volunteer force has been a steadfast sentinel offering us all a high level of advocacy to protect our benefits and pension assets, and a way to push back against potential corporate sneak attacks on our retirement security. We are also an alumni association on to top of all of that.
The Association needs you today to help spread the word.
For all of us, it has never been easier to reach out to old colleagues and friends. Let us all y take action to connect or reconnect with our big extended retiree network to all come together under the BellTel Association’s advocacy umbrella.
Are there BellTel cousins from other orphans of “Ma Bell” with whom you are still in contact? I will bet they would benefit from all our Association has to offer: the camaraderie, the sense of family, the connection to the best years of our lives, and, importantly, the strength in numbers we can provide.
As that one of our old advertising jingles went, “reach out and touch someone.”
Whether it is a friend or family member, or even a child who followed in your footsteps, encourage them to join our Association. Remind them that united, we are stronger, and only by being active and engaged can they too make a difference in protecting their and our collective retirement security.
Jack
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