NEW YORK—Liking your job is always a perk. Loving your job is a blessing. Thomas Abdallah, chief environmental engineer for the MTA, is in the latter category. As a 25-year employee of the MTA, Abdallah loves his job, his profession, and the challenges of making the MTA a more sustainable system.
“I have been very lucky ... I believe if you work hard and do the right thing, then luck will follow.”
Abdallah sat down with The Epoch Times on his 50th birthday, June 21, to reflect on his 50 years in life—half of which he has spent at the MTA.
Lifelong New Yorker
Abdallah is a born and raised New Yorker; he grew up in Brooklyn and lives there today. He says he was a typical neighborhood kid, loving sports like baseball, basketball, and stickball.
