"Flight attendant retires after 50-plus years with Aloha Airlines"
To put this into perspective, she's been working with the same employer for longer than many of us have been alive.
The article doesn't mention why she's retiring, although it doesn't sound as though she's really ready to leave.
When Patti Smart was hired as an Aloha Airlines stewardess 50 years ago, it was a different job for a different time. She rubbed elbows with Frank Sinatra, performed in-flight fashion shows and danced in smoke-filled aisles during island-hopping voyages aboard cramped DC-3s seating two dozen passengers. Smart, nicknamed the "Queen of Aloha," retires Friday after more than a half-century on the job she started when she was 18 years old.
To put this into perspective, she's been working with the same employer for longer than many of us have been alive.
The article doesn't mention why she's retiring, although it doesn't sound as though she's really ready to leave.