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 junior cataloger. It was a lovely work environment. I was used to riding the subway down to Manhattan. It was a nice quiet environment; just up my alley. I could hide in my little shell. I worked there for about a year and a half or so.

I’ve had different careers. I worked in and library for the Metropolitan Life Insurance company for two years before we were married.

Then and basically, I was a home maker.

When I got my bachelor’s degree I became a junior accountant for the city of Addison, Texas.

After that I went to work for Control Data Corporation as a product specialist installer. I was working with computers and putting software on people’s computers.

After I got my teaching credential I taught at Ochoco youth correctional facility in Prineville, Oregon. This was a correctional facility for kids aged 12 to 24. I taught computer hardware and software, and it was wonderful. I had a guard in the room and no behavioral problems.

I’m very proud of my three daughters.

The first is Yvonne, who turned 40 this year.

Carey just turned 38 or 39.

Margaret just turned 37.

We chose the mail spelling of Carey Because I liked it and Bill liked it. So she gets all kinds of men’s junk mail.

Bill and I got married in 1964, so we have been married 42 years now.