> Some of the reasons, including moving frequently and traumas in her childhood and teen years, she lost more jobs in her first three decades than most people had in a lifetime; among them were baby sitter, office/file/payroll clerk, bookkeeper, typist, retail/direct sales, receptionist, cashier, collector, program developer, administrative assistant, etc... She was alternately applauded, criticized, brow-beaten, harassed (once, literally chased around a desk), ignored, and mentored in various jobs. During those years she organized offices, developed a way to track collection income and print out necessary management reports for a bank, set up electronic means to track production for a clothing manufacturer, researched trucking archives, authored an employee manual and developed a reference manual for rehab health workers. Through these experiences, or maybe because of them, the idea for this book was born. She realized that those in her time of life (retired or bordering on retirement, regardless of the circumstances), some with no way to support themselves, many with a life similar to her own, or those just looking to fill expanses of time, needed to have some way to fulfil that goal. Thus, this book was written. None of the stories written here are based on person, alive or deceased. Those written about in this book are a complete figment of imagination.
