b"license and I was able to inspect for the City of New York. I had a department of buildings elevator inspection license.I did inspections and certified the inspections of devices. I was supervising between 12 and 15 people.What did it mean to you to be a union member? I was proud to be a union member. I know most of the folks here for years and they are nice people and they takecare of you. They are very serious about their jobs too and I appreciated everything they ever did for us. That's my feeling.I would support them all the time. They have a hard job. They take care of a lot of people; they represent a lot of people inthis City.My whole adult life I've been in unions. I think it's a great thing. I think it's good for the worker. They fight for theworker, especially today. You see what's going on out there and I just wish everybody could be as fortunate as I have beenwith representation and my job endeavors. I wish well to everyone. That's me. And I hope it continues down the road.Maybe my grandson will be a Teamster member someday. I hope so.What year did you retire?I had some time on the books that I had to use up, so my retirement date was actually August 28, 2012. That's whenI was off the City books. I had vacation time and stuff. You use it up. You get paid for it like a vacation. So that was my retirement date of August 28, 2012.How old were you at the time of your retirement?A little over 60 years old. Im now 63, I'll be 64 this month.Would you tell me what your starting salary was, when you began working for the City and then your salary atretirement?I believe it was two hundred dollars a week in the beginning in 1973. I could be wrong, its a guess.After being supervisor, I was promoted to deputy director. I was also appointed to director. In my group, they appointed people in the trade, so actually you were a supervisor, but you were a lead supervisor. It wasn't an administrator's job; it was still covered under being a supervisor. It was still a union job.You were a supervisor of supervisors?Pretty much, but I had the same title as supervisor. There were only three titles in the elevator series. So you were either a helper, a mechanic, or supervisor. I was a supervisor, but I had this slide bar title of being the director and deputydirector. I was a deputy director from 1998 to 2010, 12 years. Then in 2010, I became the director. I was responsible foreverything. Tell me about a typical day for that job. Well, that's a really tough job because it all flowed uphill. There were sleepless nights and on call 24/7 to my City administrators. We're a mayoralty agency, so you can imagine. They had a direct pipeline, so I would get calls all throughthe night and all through the weekend.108 "