After I finally completed my B.A., I decided to get a job. All the children were in school by then, and I wanted to do something professional.
I got a job as the "word-processing secretary" with a small company that manufactured a computer system devoted exclusively to word processing. The included a gas plasma screen, "international orange" in color, with white letters. The company had devoted a lot of research to the subject, and decided that the orange and white display was easiest on the eyes. The display was of the WYSIWYG type, years before that term was coined, and years before any other computer system offered it.
A short time after I started working there, a huge international company bought it. But that turned out not to be important to me, because when I came up for my 3-month review, I was let go. It wasn't that there was anything wrong with my work, or even keeping up with my work; it was because I "took off too much time" to take care of my children when they got sick. I don't think that would be allowed now.
I felt devastated, but it turned out that it freed me up to take another job that was ideal for me.
I got a job as the "word-processing secretary" with a small company that manufactured a computer system devoted exclusively to word processing. The included a gas plasma screen, "international orange" in color, with white letters. The company had devoted a lot of research to the subject, and decided that the orange and white display was easiest on the eyes. The display was of the WYSIWYG type, years before that term was coined, and years before any other computer system offered it.
A short time after I started working there, a huge international company bought it. But that turned out not to be important to me, because when I came up for my 3-month review, I was let go. It wasn't that there was anything wrong with my work, or even keeping up with my work; it was because I "took off too much time" to take care of my children when they got sick. I don't think that would be allowed now.
I felt devastated, but it turned out that it freed me up to take another job that was ideal for me.
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