Salena Zito: A tradition unlike any other

@M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/life...ion-unlike-any-other

Most interesting read.

Good article. thanks for sharing, Mitch.  Here's a better link - https://www.post-gazette.com/o...stories/202212110055

Excerpt -

When Bowdish was asked, in one of his final interviews before passing in 1988, why he continued the exacting, painstaking work year after year, he said: “Everyone regardless of their status in life, reaches out towards life’s ultimate achievement — happiness … privileges, money and possessions are useless unless they make a man happy. To those who have been bored and sickened by the monotony of work in offices, sales, fields and factories, where the only evidence of a day’s work is a headache, nothing to exhibit to friends, nothing to view with pride as an example of skill or handiwork — to those people I say ‘You should have a hobby.’”

Forty years later, Ms. Wilhelm’s answer was pretty similar: “When you have a hobby, any hobby, whatever it may be, you need to have the love and passion to really bring that extra spark, the extra ingredient to bring that fulfillment. When you have that, that is a happiness you earn and that is the most meaningful kind.”

Thank you gentlemen, that’s an excellent read. We have family in Pittsburgh but I have yet to see this masterpiece. The sentiment is so true because you need to have an outlet outside of work. No one has ever said, on their death bed, I wish I spent more time at work. However, it is a very real possibility that many of us might say, “ I wish I spent more time in my train room”.

Jay