Little did she know she'd be celebrating 50 years later, her golden years of employment with the same radio company on Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

Ms Orr said she left school when she was 15, got a job with Coles Lithgow where she worked for six months, and then another job for two and a half years at a local hardware store, before getting the job with 2LT.

"There was an opening so I applied and got it, it was really handy because at that time I just lived across the road from the station up on the highway, so it was really good," she said.

The now 68 year-old started off as an assistant in the record library.

"I'd be cataloging all the records, the little 45's that we use to get in, in those days, back in the olden days," she laughed.

Ms Orr is now the station's office manager and said she gradually moved up as people left.

"I went from the record library into the scheduling of the commercials, that's where I've been and now I do the scheduling of the ads, plus all of the accounts, the wages.

"People say I'm the backbone of this place, I'm only it, doing the administration and all that," she said.

Ms Orr said she had also seen a lot of changes during her 50 years of employment.

"When I started here we use to have written logs for the announcers to read and they use to have to tick 'em off and put times on everything when they played the commercials.

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"After the hand written logs we had the stencil logs where you typed up a stencil and then you had to run 'em off on the stencil, and then after that we got a really basic Commodore 64 computer system," she said.

Now all computerised, Ms Orr said she's found it quite good being gradually upgraded to better systems.

"It's actually been fine, not too challenging at all," she said.

After working at the same place for a long period, Ms Orr also said there had been many ups and downs.

"Some days I've felt you know, sort of as if I could leave but then I've weighed it up and stayed here, I love the work and I love the interaction with different people that come in and on the phones," she said.

She also said she has kept in contact with a lot the people that had come through the work place.

"I've kept in contact with a lot of the old staff here, even my first boss," she said.

Ms Orr said although she may work at a radio station she was happy being behind the scenes.

"Funny I work at a radio station but there's no way you'd get me behind the microphone, but I've got no regrets, I'm happy here," she said.

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