Presidential race 2016

[blueberryhill]

I went into Dept store to buy a gallon of paint to paint interior of my home. Clerk asked me for my ID which I provided. Then he asked for my place of employment. I had just resigned from job with Gov't to go back to college full time. I took out student loans, and cashed all the money I had in bonds, to finance this. When I told him I wasn't employed but was a student (I was 39 at the time),he had such a shocked look on his face so he asked about my husband's job. Told him I was not married so he wasn't going to cash my check for $23.00. I then asked him to call my bank to verify that I had that money in bank (other customers were now in line observing all of this), He proceeded to call bank and verified that I had the money.

My boss has told me a lot about that period of time. She's got a shit ton of stories about what it was like for her being a very young woman and trying to start a business. It was back then that she started going by her initials. She couldn't even get a foot in the door after her given name was seen, bankers & other associated people wouldn't give her the time of day when they saw she was a female. I work in a mainly male dominated field and there is still some of that around but it is nothing like what it used to be, not even close.

I totally understand. To this day, I don't know why had these feelings of oppression that sprouted when I was only 17. I remember, my mother would have dinner on table at exactly 6:00 P.M. and God forbid, if she was late getting home from her bridge club....I observed the holidays where all the women slaved and cooked while the guys chilled watching sports. In addition to TV, my dad would have 2 or 3 radios going to listen/watch to more than one game....It wasn't some earth shattering experience, I just didn't like the role of the women in that era... ..well, my parents rarely talked to each other, but I thought that was normal..hehe I do have some other experiences of working in a male dominated work environment, but will save that for another day. You have to admire someone like your Boss who made it in spite of her circumstances. I can remember when people, especially women, didn't trust a woman doctor...In my day, when a woman graduated from school, she became either a Nurse or a Teacher. Baby, we have come a long way, but we still need to raise income of Nurses and Teachers. They are still underpaid, because in the beginning, these positions were typically held by women so pay scale didn't rise along with "equal pay" concept...