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Austin - my job
Tue May 20 2003

Thanks to FishcreekBride for confirming the date of the Waco tornado I wrote about yesterday.

I went to work for one of the State offices, but for the life of me I can't remember which office it was. There were branch offices all over the state, and my boss was the supervisor of the branch offices.

One of my duties was to publish a monthly newsletter. The managers of the various branch offices would send articles telling about what had happened during the month in their sectors, and I would copy (and edit) for the newsletter. The Director of the office would dictate to me his monthly wisdom which I also edited (very subtly) and formatted for the newsletter.

I had to arrange the branch news so that everything fit nicely on a page, without any large blank spaces and no crowding. I also did some little illustrations within the newsletter, and designed the newletter cover each month. Then when everything was all put together, it got sent downstairs to the print shop.

Does anyone remember offset printing? I learned how to do that. It wasn't part of my job description, but I was interested in seeing how the printers put everything together. This was in the days long before computers were available, so I had to type everything on some special paper, then the printers ran the pages through their offset print machines, collated, and bundled my lovely newsletters for mailing.

Somewhere in the boxes I have in storage, I still have a collection of the newletters I put together during the two years I worked in that office. Wonder which box they're in?

Shalom

8 Comments
  • From:
    CovertOps (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue May 20 2003
    Dear Chaya,
    Re: Your comment on righteousness and Judaism - Thanks for enlightening me! Any religion which does not guarantee deliverance only to its believers and condemn all others to Hell is a religion for the clear-thinking and true of heart.
    In Buddhism too Enlightenment can be attained by anyone who is mindful, selfless, compassionate, honest and morally responsible.
    There are no terms or 'apostate', 'infidel' or 'non-believer' in Buddhism.
    How funny that you would talk about publishing as a profession! I am an editor in a legal information services company. We do law publications. Technology has been a real boon!
    Love,
    E.L.
  • From:
    Becoming (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue May 20 2003
    I just bet you did a wonderful job on that newsletter. I seems to me it would be fun to read through them again.
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue May 20 2003
    Good old ink on paper.
    One of life's wonderous gifts :-)

    Y.
  • From:
    Ozone (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue May 20 2003
    I remember well offset printing, as well as dito, mimeograph, and liquid copy printing. I also remember when you had to stick carbon paper in between the onion skins. Damn I feel old.
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue May 20 2003
    oooo, good for you keeping them all
    special memories indeed, does this mean you're hunting around to look for them again?
    one thing about your life is that you have done and seen many wonderful things :)

    sez

    p.s. re my dreams, i still have no idea what they mean. missing something, finding something? hmmm, i'm drawing a blank
  • From:
    FishCreekBride (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 21 2003
    Wow! That sounds like a FUN job! "The person who loves her job never works a day in her life..."
  • From:
    FishCreekBride (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 21 2003
    Wow! That sounds like a FUN job! "The person who loves her job never works a day in her life..."
  • From:
    CovertOps (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed May 21 2003
    Dear Chaya,
    Thank you for telling me about Golda Meir. Her struggle must have been a hard one. She is a great woman -- strong and true!
    Love,
    E.L.