ANZ Busselton branch manager Glen Barkla is celebrating his 50th anniversary with the organisation.
Mr Barkla began his career shortly after he finished school and only planned on staying until he found something better.
He was working for his father beforehand and completed a career quiz to see what type of job he would be suited for and was told it was banking.
"My dad knew the bank manager so he phoned him, and I was told to start that Monday," he said.
"It feels surreal because it does feel like it was not long ago that I started, now all of a sudden it has been 50 years."
One of Mr Barkla's first postings with the bank was working at the Southern Cross branch were he was in charge of gold bars.
"Southern Cross was a farming and mining area, we would buy the gold off the miners and give them a small advance on the gold," he said.
"It would go to the Mint to get assessed, the Mint would then pay them the balance.
"In those days we used to send the gold to the Mint by registered post through the Post Office, we also sent cash via the Post Office."
Mr Barkla said in those days he and the bank manager would walk to the Post Office with a loaded gun in their pockets.
"That was our security," he said.
"We had no computers on the desk in those days and it took me about three years before I became a teller, nowadays you are on cash straightaway.
"There has been a lot of change."
Mr Barkla has been at the Busselton branch for 22 years and has seen most of WA through his employment at ANZ.
Southern Cross was his first post which was followed by Derby, Kambalda, Gnowangerup and York.
"The highlights have really been the people who I have worked with, I have made lifelong friends in the bank and dealing with the customers," he said.
"Probably most satisfying were opening two branches while I was Busselton, I opened a branch in Margaret River and Dunsborough because there was a growing number of business in those areas.
"That was at a time when branches were closing, so that was very positive, unfortunately Dunsborough has closed since then but that is a sign of the times as banking branches are shrinking."