EAST HANOVER TWP. – Talk about company loyalty.
Statistics show most people today change jobs a many as nine or 10 times during the course of their lifetimes before retiring.
Hy Goldman is decidedly not of that camp. He has been working for the same company, Capitol Lighting, for the past 73 years, since June 1, 1941 when he was 28, years old, to be exact. And even though the World War II Army veteran lives in the Lester Senior Housing Community on Route 10 in Whippany, he has no plans on retiring anytime soon despite the fact he just celebrated his 101st birthday last Sunday.
The family owned Capitol Lighting held a birthday bash for Goldman at its Route 10 East Hanover store on Monday complete with cake and ice cream.
Goldman is an artist of sorts. For the past 12 years he has been working at the Route 10 store where he has his own workshop he calls his “studio” at the rear of the second-floor clearance section. Goldman takes broken and discarded electrical lighting fixtures and refurbishes them, adding wiring to many or finding blades for ceiling fans or adding new glass globes to transform old lighting fixtures into something brand new to sell in the clearance section. Read More
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