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“Should the Careerist Choose Love, . . .” (opens the original)
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I wrote the following for the occasion of my father’s retirement in 1994. An edition of it was published in Catholic Digest , in January 1995, under the title “‘Be the Best Bum You Can Be’.” It appears here with some minor editing in the month that my father would have turned ninety-five years old. Please see its introduction, the preceding post: “ The Man Who Stays: .” 1994 My father retired recently from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, where for twenty-eight years he worked as a la
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An Introduction to “ ‘Should the Careerist Choose Love,...’ ” When my father was considering retiring over thirty years ago, he asked a friend what he liked best about retirement. The friend succinctly responded, “Sunday nights.” Before long Dad too was enjoying Sunday nights in a way he had never done before. At his retirement dinner, several people spoke of working with Dad for years, and yet little if any of what they said had anything to do with his work, as I remember it. Instead they spoke
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