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Rose

After San died I went back to work. I worked for the State of New Jersey in the Department of Labor and Industry. I started in 1961 as a claims clerk at $3500 per year. I took courses at night with special program run by the Department. I went for two or three years and earned college credits, which in the Department earned me credit for a college degree. I was able to take an exam in the Department that called for a college degree – without a degree you couldn't apply for the higher paying jobs. I took all the exams, same as the college graduates did, and passed.

I retired after 27 years with the State as a manager of the Red Bank Unemployment Office. I had 21 employees full-time and about 10 to 15 on the roster to use during our busy season. I had a great secretary and a great staff. I loved working there.

I really needed a computer to send this all to you. My office was the pilot office in the state to go online. That was over 20 years ago, and computers were not what they are today. They only programmed the easy stuff originally. I was always arguing with the programmers because the system was always going down, and they had no back-up system in place. When the system went down I had to resort to manual payment. Then when the system came up, I put all the manual payments in – which gave me double work. So, I had enough of computers. However, years later they finally came up to speed.

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