My first job was at the Cotton Shop on Roosevelt Road; working for a friend of the family. I helped to stock and arrange clothes on the rack by size and style. I also helped with the financial part of the business by counting and balancing the register.

Along the way; after graduating from Harrison High School; I devoted my time and energy to being a working mother at Marshall Field on State Street as an Operator in the Bridal Registry until management discovered I had exceptional mathematical skills and transferred me to Accounting in the capacity of an Accounts Payable Clerk.

Along the way, major surgery, a failed marriage and a few unhappy relationships caused several job changes. I worked in Chicago at General Electric as a file clerk, I trained and work at Cook County Hospital in Chicago as a Ward Secretary, at St. Mary of Nazareth as a Medical Clerk and I even sold Avon cosmetics on a part-time basis to supplement my income to provide for my child.

Moving to California was the beginning of employment disasters that should never happen to anyone while working in the U S A.