In the affiliate marketing world, so much emphasis is put on telling your own story so people will know, like, and trust you. So, here is mine.
While these may not be impressive statistics, especially for a military person, I am a girl who started out in a small rural town, and over the course of 40 years, we moved 20 times.
You may think I got relieved from some jobs (fired), but actually, I only got fired once! Mainly, the changes in occupation were necessary because of relocation.
One of the things that have changed ginormously during those years is technology. In high school, I excelled in shorthand. Now almost obsolete, it was the most progressive and competitive job ability to have at the time. I was awarded a certificate for achieving 120 words per minute taking Gregg shorthand. I used this skill as an executive secretary in three different jobs, and can still take shorthand (albeit much slower) today.
I also was adept at typing on a manual typewriter speeding at times up to 100 words per minute. I eventually graduated to a Selectric electric typewriter passing up many job applicants on the timed writing tests. Just as a side note: I feel that I have digressed somewhat as I try to text on the tiny keypad of a smartphone. I watch in admiration as the younger generation deftly maneuvers their fingers over minuscule keyboards on their touch screens. This typing skill has been used in most of the jobs I have had, even the current one as a freelance writer.
One of the earliest jobs I had was taking medical dictation. In the laboratory of a hospital, I used a dictaphone which had a large plastic belt (3.5 inches) loaded onto a cylinder. They called it a “quantum leap forward” in technology for dictation. A pedal on the floor would speed up, stop, rewind, or fast forward the ribbon as needed. I typed medical jargon pathologists dictated onto the recording belts and got quite good at it. Being a medical secretary was one of my favorite occupations.
My first experience with computers was as a keypunch operator. Say, what? Yes, I took a course to learn to punch holes in cards, which were then loaded onto a data processing center (early computer) half the size of a room, which told it what to do. Need I say, we have come a long way baby?
Thankfully, we now have personal computers and do not have to hire keypunch operators to tell our computers what to do.
Another of my favorite jobs over the years was wiring integrated circuits. I got this job right out of high school working for Signetics, the first electronics manufacturer. Similar to Intel, we made microprocessors, but we did it all by hand with gold wire, whilst looking through a microscope. Once the skill was refined and became automatic, we had some great times keeping up with the latest gossip. I remember getting $2.85 per hour for wiring chips and thought I was big stuff!(Maybe that is what sparked my newest hobby making wire-wrapped jewelry).
Now that I am retired, I reflect on the great experiences I have had on and off the job. My main reason for learning affiliate marketing is to keep my mind sharp and to supplement my meager pension and social security for which I did not realize I would have to pay taxes…WARNING!
If you are still reading this, you know way more than most people about me – I have experienced abuse by men in the workplace and out – may they get what they deserve – and have been discriminated against because of age and for marrying out of my race, but each experience taught me something….
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