I've had a dozen jobs in the 39 years that I've been working here in Connecticut, and I have kept most of the company-issued name tags that I was issued over the years. I recently found some of them, and wow, seeing them again brought back so many memories. Some sad- the business no longer exists, but mostly good, because those jobs and my co-workers made me the model employee that I am today.

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I love finding out that a new friend spent years running the skee-ball at Quassy, or they used to be a blackjack dealer at Mohegan Sun. You assume a bit of the businesses' identity and allure with those name tags, right? Here's 4 of my old name tags, and the story about the job and the place.

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Did you save all your name tags from your old jobs? I did, and i found a bunch of them over the weekend. Before radio, I worked a few 'normal' jobs before the microphone found me, here are a few of the places that I have great memories of. Show me yours.

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