Employee Retention, Retirees, And Living Longer Than Most.

I Am An Avid Adult Learner.

I must have read or listened to 1000 books or more, plus podcasts, courses, and reading online. I have lots of library shelves in my home.

I make notes of important ideas of what I have learned in journals. I have 60 journals filled up! At Connecticut Basement Systems we keep our employees for a long time. It says a lot about our culture and what we do. Recently we had a foreman, Kryzs, retire from being a foreman of a crew at age 70. He’d been with us for 25 years.

Foreman, Kryzs

Being on production is hard work. That’s one of the reasons people hire us. Jackhammering, carrying heavy rubble up stairs, mixing concrete by hand, and crawling in crawl spaces to do hard work every single day is not easy. How did Kryzs do it to age 70?

The answer is that he was in shape FROM doing it. I read a book by Peter Attila called OUTLIVE. It’s about how to live longer. The number one thing to help you live longer –exercise. All kinds of good things happen in the body when you use it.

Another book called Ikigai (A Japanese term about having a purpose, a reason to live) talked about the people on the
island of Okinawa, where there is a higher percentage of people over 100 years old than anywhere on Earth. They all said to stay active and do moderate exercise each day into old age. (They also ate in moderation, ate good food, and had friends that they liked to be with each day.) I find that if I can do something I LIKE to do that is also exercise, then it makes it easy.

Things you can find me doing on a weekend or in the evenings are cleaning up dead and leaning trees in the woods with a chain saw, riding dirt bikes, or carpentry. I have some property with woods and a couple of old barns where I love to get outdoors and spend time with friends and family.

What do you do that is physical and fun?