Workers are more and more likely these days to list a string of employers on their resumes. But some people still stick with one for quite a while: Last week, the county honored 37 employees, a few of them living or working in West Marin, who have worked for Marin for 30, 35 or 40 years. (Thirty-year employees received a certificate and a clock, while longer terms brought somewhat larger clocks.) West Marin honorees include Kerry Livingston, a Stinson Beach librarian; Doug Pittman, the head of the Marin County Sheriff’s Office’s Point Reyes substation; and Matt Murphy, who works in probation. All were honored for 30 years of work. (Mr. Pittman says he has worked here for 33 years, though. “The county is a little behind,” he said.) Ms. Livingston, who was born on the East Coast and grew up in Los Olivos, moved to West Marin with her husband, Dewey, in 1983. Both of her parents were boarding school teachers. “Our bookshelves were my education more than college,” she said. She became a substitute librarian for the county in 1986 and went full-time at Stinson Beach in 1991. There have been a few changes over the years, including an expansion of the library from a 300-square-foot building to its current location, a former 7-Eleven. What else has changed? “Computers!” she said. Keeping up with the technological transformations has been trying at times, but the job has its perks. “You can hear the ocean all the time,” she said. “There isn’t a better place to work.” Lt. Pittman, who grew up in Concord, started working for the county when he was 21 years old—and he already had experience working for both Concord police department (the graveyard shift) and security for a music venue. He worked for the police department in Richmond “for about a day” before racial divisions on the police force spurred him to leave. He ended up in Marin, and for the past 33 years has held a number of posts, including patrol officer, field training officer and jail supervisor. He has served on the Major Crimes Task Force, a federal job task force (he helped seize 16 tons of weed and 100 kilograms of cocaine) and was a founding member of a professional standards unit. He said he was the first official public information officer for the Sheriff’s Office, a title he holds today. His first duty was a press conference on homicides in Woodacre and Contra Costa County. Mr. Murphy, who has lived in Point Reyes Station for 27 years, was born and raised in Monterey, graduated from Dominican University and started working for the probation department 32 years ago. “Probation is a privilege, not a right,” he said. There are many jobs in the department, which is roughly divided into adult probation, juvenile probation and juvenile hall. Employees generally focus on investigations—which entails investigating the potential probationer and making a recommendation to a judge—or supervision. Mr. Murphy has pretty much worked in every position. “I’m kind of a jack of all trades,” he said. One significant change he emphasized in probation relates to the supervision side of the job. When he was hired in the ‘80s, methods for determining what exactly a probationer should do during probation—such as community service or a treatment program—were less standardized. Today, the department has an evidence-based approach. “[Such programs] are proven to work if you abide by them with fidelity,” he said.