Goid grief. No one pried the lid off of a can of Hawaiian Punch. You took a church key and poked two holes in the top. And people smoked damn near everywhere up until this century.
Work life balance? I don't think I heard anything like that until decades later. They called me one night at 2 am because the clinic burglar alarm was going off. As a 20 year old single woman I declined to go look into it. The nerve. Loved that heat fax paper. I remember it smudging.…Â
I made $14,000.00 per year at that job. 1984. I had an apartment in a decent neighborhood, no roommate. A car. It was enough money to shop, whenever I wanted. But the smoking. It was, literally, everywhere.
Oh, God, the smoking. I worked in a medical clinic and the head nurse and my, very pregnant, coworker always had one lit. But the health insurance...I worked for Missouri Pacific HMO. Never paid for anything. Except 50 whole dollars for an oral surgeon to remove my wisdom teeth.…Â
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