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Release Date: 08/22/2017

 

Meet the longest-serving employee at BART, 47 years and counting, still finding joy

 

 

     In the spring of 1970 when Larry Williams first came to work for BART, he was -- in his own words -- "just a kid."

   

 Fresh out of Berkeley High School, he was hunting for a job. The new transit district had a position in the mail room, but Williams saw more. He saw opportunity.

 

    "It was an exciting time," Williams recalls. He signed up to be in BART's first-ever class of train operators. And he hasn't stopped yet.  That's 47 years and counting, making Williams BART's longest-serving employee. If you have ridden the Richmond-Fremont line in the mornings in the last few decades, he has probably been your operator.

 

     "My job brings me joy," Williams said. "If you are a positive person and you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life."  Read more about how he does it, and his advice for keeping motivated in a career with such longevity. 

 

By MELISSA JORDAN, BART Senior Web Producer