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A New Beginning:
My very first real job was at Amber Rest Center. I was a nursing home. I wanted to help people weather they were old or young. I believe this was my ... |
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Florence Louise Light Manning Flynn: It’s a Goodie!!!!! She wrote in her "Flight ... |
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Henry Tolopilo:
Pastor to the Spanish Ministry at Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, CA ,USA since 1995. |
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MARVA:
My first job was right out of school,Jay Jay Store in 1972, in Oakland , CaI worked there untill 1985, that's a long time, started off just a salesgirl , later ... |
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Catherine Browning McFarlane: Work for a Pittance , Work for No Pay Well I said I never minded the work in the big house and it’s true. I worked in two other big houses close to granma’s cottage and I never minded the ... |
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Corrina Cop Rain McFarlane: Working My Joy I was already straining and smarting from the unfairness of it all. My schoolfriends were all being celebrated in their families, encouraged to enjoy ... |
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Ron Westerman: Out of Korea, and Into a Vocational Crisis I returned to the States in September of ’56, and was discharged out of Treasure Island, San Francisco. I returned to college in Santa Barbara. It was then known as the University ... |
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John Matson: Almost all the successes I’ve had in my career have come from following people who got fired! The first job I had out of high school was working for Rap-in-Wax Paper Company, "Home of Waxed and Laminated Papers", in Minneapolis, as a paper tester. ... |
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Marilyn Patton: I Dance with a Well-Known Modern Dance Company ... |
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Eugene C. Robertson: I Worked with Joan Crawford for 17 Years I got my first job when I was 16 or 17 at the Fox Movie Theatre in Hanford, California. I hand-painted the big movie posters to advertise each new film. ... |
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Dorothy Gibson: I Grew Up During The Depression And I Hung On To The Money I Made. I first started working part time in Raleigh during school when I was about sixteen years old. I’d gotten a job in Raleigh. I’d hitch rides over to town to go ... |
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Faye Stone: My First Love Becomes My First Job: I Work with Animals I’m driving my VW, I don’t have a job, and my son Christian is four. I had a welfare worker. I had to go once a month and say how I ... |
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Frank Burge: I Was Sitting in the Reception Area, Buck Naked ... |
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Sylvia Wall: I was a Teacher My Entire Life When I went to school I always got very good grades. I wanted to go to the University of Washington to get a good degree and a good job. And, I ... |
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Nancy Tucker: Work mixed with Family My first job as a medical technologist was at Kaiser Clinic in Redwood City. This was before the hospital was built there. I worked at the clinic for four years. I stopped ... |
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Virginia Congdon Robertson: I Worked Hard All My Life And I worked. I worked at Newberry’s at seventeen cents an hour, and when I got to twenty-seven cents an hour, they hired somebody that worked for seventeen cents an hour, ... |
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Dorothy Zeyen: I Worked as a School Principal Louis got his doctorate at the University of Southern California. He was a planner, and I just wasn’t used to people who planned those things, you know? I was so impressed. ... |
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John Rialson: Music Kept Getting in the Way My first job was as a truck driver; a teamster. One summer between classes I went down to the teamster’s hiring hall because someone told me I could make some money ... |
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Zora Thompson: WE’D BETTER GO HOME, ZOE. THERE’S GOING TO BE A WAR THAT WINTER I FOUND MY WAY TO THE ... |
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Val Wiese: My Language Skills Help me in a Variety of Occupations When I got out of the military, I went to work for the telephone company. I worked for them for twenty-seven years. I had installed, repaired. Since I could speak Spanish ... |
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Tony Channin: 40 Years of Surfing and Surf Businesses During this time my dad made a deal with the company to lease the only ... |
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Than Bischoff: I Worked for Place & Gera, a Wonderful Family-Owned Business I got out with an honorable discharge and used my V. A. benefits to go to school for a while. I tried to go to college; I did the best I ... |
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Tara Palajac: My Work Life, To Date I used to live close to high school at the intersection of Hollenbeck and Homestead roads. In a small shopping plaza there was a women’s clothing store called Lohman’s. This was ... |
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Sharon Abernethy: The Tannery Was the Best Place I Ever Worked My mother-in-law used to work for an employment agency called Aaron employment services. She heard of the job and told me about it, so I applied. There was competition for the ... |
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Scott Bloom: Entering My 28th Tax Season I moved from the Midwest to Santa Cruz in 1975. I graduated from college in 1972.And I graduated I moved to Chicago and work for Kraft foods in the internal audit ... |
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Ron Lyons: A Career in Real Estate and Education I got into the real estate business up here about 30 or 35 years ago. I’d talk to real estate at Cabrillo College for a number of years. I had my ... |
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Robert Hutchinson: I Become a Designer I ended up being a designer, for lack of a better term. I wanted to be a “decorator,” and do fancy European interiors. But after touring the world as a young ... |
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Robert Ede: I’ve Lived and Worked in Findlay for most of my Life In about 1937 my mother and father had moved to Findlay, Ohio where they had originally lived. He was operating a real estate business. My cousin Georgie was also involved in ... |
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Robert Berryessa: Nineteen sixties: Flower Power and Playland-at-the-Beach I was working at Playland At The Beach in San Francisco. I was looking around for what job I was going to get into. I worked in the mail department at the ... |
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Rikki Willett: On My First Nursing Job, I Last Three Days Within a ... |
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Richard Magen: Turned on to amphetamines, and loving every minute As a young kid, I always seem to work in the restaurant business. I used to work in a steak restaurant that was owned by low – level mafia guys who ... |
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Ralph Hempfling: After a String of Odd Jobs, I Land at IBM I stayed at home until 21. My dad got married again probably when I was about 19 and I lived there for two years, although I worked various jobs. I drove ... |
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Ralph Appio: Hard Work on the Farm We got up in the morning and worked, then went to school. We fed the chickens, rabbits, goats. We also had apricots and prunes and cherries. My dad would hire us ... |
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Phoebe Katherine Cookson Plassman: I Taught for 21 Years, then Entered the Convent By that time, ... |
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Phil Camacho: After Korea, I Get Pulled Back into Working at the Tannery I started working part time at the tannery. It didn’t make sense; you couldn’t work over 32 hours so we had to go to school four hours a week, which is ... |
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Peggy Winkle: I Taught at Inner-City Schools in Cincinnati I taught in the black section of Cincinnati. My school was almost entirely black children. I taught third grade there and after a while I was moved to another section of ... |
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Peggy McGovern: On My First Job, I Meet the Biggest Movie Stars of the Day Then I graduated and I worked in Manhattan, but while I was in high school I worked in New York. I had a job as a messenger at Jay Thorpe’s on ... |
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Norma Starr: I Worked While I was Going to School I worked. I worked while I was going to school. I worked as a bookkeeper and I went to a jewelry store and worked. That was the first place I worked, ... |
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Monserrat Sanz: Working in High Tech I worked for Borland in Spain and moved to the States in 1995. I came to Santa Cruz in June 1995 and worked for Novell as QA engineer for almost a ... |
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Carmelita Austin-Schreher: Off to Work: Career and Community Service When I left Berkeley, I did lab analysis for Carnation company. Then I felt like I wasn’t a lab person and a I really wanted to be a health professional. I ... |
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Bud Beaudoin: A Legacy of Service Bud and Peg raised eight children. When Peg passed away, Bud married Clara Murphy, adding four more children to the family. Today, his combined family, including children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, numbers ... |
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Bob Stahl: I Have Taught Meditation and Stress Reduction to Thousands of People So eventually I left the monastery and married Jan. I still wanted to do meditation. Eventually ... |
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Bob Newman: My Life is all About Serendipity In those days the telephone business was still growing very rapidly. In 1948 I was offered a job in AT&T headquarters, but I had to move to New York, so we ... |
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Bertine Hancock: During WWII, I’m a Working Woman I started working and I wrote to service fellas. A lot of letters exchanged back and forth, but as soon as I got out of high school - we had a ... |
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Bernie Miller: I Ran Miller’s Jewelry in Hanford for 40 Years, then Sold the Business to My Son When I got home I went back to Fresno state and studied to be an industrial arts teacher. Woodshop, mechanical drawing, stuff like that. But when I get back I had ... |
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Bernard "Barney" Bricmont: After High School I Join the Marines I was encouraged to leave high school in 1957 to go to work for Kearney pattern works. They were skilled craftsmen and they were making good money in those days. If ... |
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Barry Morris Brooks: Viva Las Vegas So, out of high school I got an audition in Las Vegas from an acrobatic teacher. She is kind of famous, Kit André. She was the one who taught Jean Benet ... |
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Ann Urbanski: I Worked at the Rocking U, Our Family Business, for 14 Years Lou: We came back to Findlay and John and Mike called and said they were going to get into the restaurant business in Findlay and take care of mom and dad. ... |
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Anne Phipps: In a Hospital, There are All Kinds of Weird People (And How I Became one of Them) So rather than go back to the university on Minnesota, I decided to go into nursing. When you live as I did in a hospital for 6 months, you know the ... |
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Angelo Grova: I Open My First Art School, and an Earthquake Shakes Things Up After ten years of working at UCSC, I decided not to deal with the bureaucracy any more. I opened up Art School Santa Cruz on Portrero. I went non-profit. I had ... |
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Analydia Scoggins: In Los Angeles, I Begin my Love Affair with Adult Education For a while we lived in Los Angeles. Later on we moved to Covina and West Covina. The schools were better. I was a teacher in the Covina school district, junior ... |
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Aldo Cooper: We Start a Sailboat Charter Business in the Caribbean So for the last two winters of college I managed a ski shop at one of the local ski hills. I assumed that I would do that again that fall. But ... |
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Florence Hunter: Working at RCA, and Singing at the top of My Lungs While Driving Our Tractor I worked for RCA for 23.5 years when the oldest one got to be in high school. It helped out because I was so sure that if I didn’t get a ... |
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Emilia Gallegos: Canning Fruit in the "Valley of the Heart’s Delight" After high school, I worked in the canneries. San Jose used to be all fruit orchards. Spring time was beautiful; just a mass of blossoms. It was a gorgeous place, and ... |
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Elnora Taylor: I Buy a Beauty Salon My future mother in law told me that ... |
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Elizabeth Lucille Rozelle: When Dad Died, I Went to Work to Help Support the Family I had plans all set. I was going to go to Ohio State and my father passed away in March and I graduated in June, and there was just no way ... |
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Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert: Tenure, a Second Marriage, a Move to California, Success in Academe and Business So now this is my fourth year and I actually got tenure early. So, I went up in my fourth year and was tenured. I was invited that year to go ... |
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Edward John McInerney: 1987: My First Patent Career wise, I got my first patent in 1987, which was a big accomplishment for me. I also published some papers at that time. I also worked on a lot of ... |
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Eddie Rojas: I Take Up Cowboy Work: Breaking Horses, Branding Calves I worked there breaking ... |
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Doris Robertson-Polley: At 19, I take over as Women’s Page Editor of the Sentinel Newspaper After high school I had a job in a flower shop for a little while. Then I started getting interested in working for the Hanford Sentinel newspaper. I had sent them ... |
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Don Mitchell: I Scored Sorties Duirng the Vietnam War ... |
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Don George Alexander: Tough Customers, Bootleggers, and Breakthrough Inventions I went to high school here in Findlay and graduated in 1936. I didn’t have any money; didn’t have a scholarship so I didn’t get to go to college, so I ... |
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Denise Morra: I “Hide Out” in Manhattan for A Year-and-a-Half My father had a rule. When you were eighteen, you started to pay rent. So I needed a job. So I got a job at Metropolitan Life Insurance company as a ... |
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Darwin Hintz: I Have Lived and Worked in Amazing Times Those were the war years and I didn’t get into the service but I worked for several contractors who had war contracts. The last one at the end of the war, ... |
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Dale Townsend: A Horrific Highway Accident Inspires the Road Trip that Changes My Life When I came back my boyfriend and ... |
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Chris Beaudoin: High Times Flying the Friendly Skies After coming to the end of that time and not really having a firm grip on what I was going to do, I heard that Pan Am was interviewing people to ... |
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John Donovan: I Work My Way out to San Francisco After the service the only job I could find was as a Baker. I was delivering bread door – two – door in Pennsylvania for about three months. I worked for ... |
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Jim McGovern: A Varied Career as an Engineer Career-wise I’ve worked as a civil and structural engineer for the first three or four years on the job. I was very fortunate to work for a good small company where ... |
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Jeremy Lezin: Early in my Career I was a Movie Maker Yeah, school was great. Going through high school and college I always vowed that I had no interest in the tannery whatsoever. I wanted to do something different. I had grown ... |
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Ginger and Doug Levick: The Dean of Women Was Fired for Being Drunk, so at Age 24, I Got Her Job I look back on what a flip-head I was! No, I didn’t know you really had to be prepared for anything but marriage. I mean, I wanted to teach so after ... |
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George Newell: I Created My Own First Job Then, basically, I decided if I was going to go any further in graduate studies I was going to have to learn the language that I was going to do research ... |
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George Dunn: I Get Angry, Quit my Job and Go to Work for Marathon Oil But, it was fun and…but I came back and I was drawing unemployment and they wanted me to go to work so finally I went to school and worked at Tiffen. ... |
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Frank Maxwell: I Take on Some Big Welding Jobs While I was working at the University of California, I also worked in the shipyards in Oakland. I also worked in Alameda for a while. There, I worked in the dry ... |
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Mickey Frazer: How I Beat a Captain at His Own Game All my life I’ve done accounting, commercial accounts, military pay, and payroll. I’ve worked in the commercial field, and work with people. But every vacation time I went back and worked ... |
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Michael Popovich: I Am A Writer, Teacher, Organizer, Inventor THEN I WAS HIRED IN A STEEL SHOP AS A LABORER AT 12 CENTS PER HOUR FOR A TEN HOUR DAY. I WORKED SEVEN DAYS A WEEK FOR A WHOLE YEAR ... |
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Mel Wilcox: I Spent 42 Years at Cooper Tire and Rubber Back in them days if you didn’t want to finish school they would put you to work at home on the farm. I told my boys – I was one of ... |
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Mattie Leeds: A Decades-Long Apprenticeship in Pottery, Art, Philosophy and Painting I guess I wasn’t that busy during my school days. I would ride my bike around; I had a tropical aquarium filled with fish. I wasn’t pressured into conforming. But since ... |
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Matt Cocchi: A Long and Winding Road to My Degree in Business Communications After high school I started college. I worked part time for my father’s business and went to school. When my parents divorced, my father and I had a splitting of the ... |
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Mary Margaret Donovan: Women were not supposed to go into Engineering, so I became a Nurse I wanted to be an engineer like my father, but he discouraged it because women weren’t accepted into engineering at the time. I didn’t want to be a teacher and the ... |
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Vince Tolaio: I Never, Ever Wanted to Work at the Tannery So, I was fooling around and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and decided – my father kept coming back. He was still working at the tannery. ... |
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Mardi Brick: A Long Road to Winning the Race for Mayor ... |
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Lou Urbanski: I Ran Large Breweries all over the US Lou: I was sales manager for Old Dutch Brewery and this included a local delivery service and sales. Wholesale became an important part of it because the community was too small ... |
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Lenny Hobbs: A Lifetime of Operating Practically Every Type of Heavy Machinery They had a fork about that long and ... |
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Larry Coppes: I’ve Always Done Heavy Physical Work After got out of the service I came back home to Findlay and started looking for a job. I found a job and Dow chemical here in Findlay. I worked a ... |
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Kathleen Gambogi: I Live in a Tiny Mexican Town, and Live by Selling my Paintings I’ve been doing a lot of selling it, and doing very well. My art is evolving and I am now into doing large tropical paintings. A few days ago I sold ... |
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June Rose Hoaglund: My Husband Works for the Airlines My ... |
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Juanita Marie Schuck-Harris: I Was a Librarian for 38 Years I got my first job when my husband Stanley was in the Air Force, the black Air Force. He was stationed at Tuskegee. My very first job was there. When I ... |
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Lela Coppes: I’ve Hop-Scotched from Job to Job I worked in the home and now I work for days a week as a custodian here at the Hancock county senior center. The reason I started working was that Larry ... |
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John Urbanski: For 30 Years, My Work Life Has Been all About Food I seem to have worked in the food service throughout my entire life. When I was a teenager I worked for the Harvest House cafeteria. I also worked for Gino’s which ... |
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