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    What kept this middle school music teacher on the job for 35 years?

    Robin Hazlett of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, says she has known she wanted to be a music teacher since the 9th grade, when she was a student at Drexel Hill Middle School. By high school, Hazlett discovered that playing music was a way to participate and be a part of theatre performances without having to be up on stage, but still getting to experience the magic of live musical theatre. Fast forward to the present, and Hazlett has combined all these revelations into a dedicated career at the ver

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    She answered a job ad in 1984 with 'no intention of staying' — but then she made history

    Millennials move from job to job in order to climb the ladder. For other generations, this was not the norm. Just ask Jackie Pettyjohn, who has been at her job for 32 years, working the night shift as a train engineer for 20 of them.