BOB:  Yeah, well, doctor want you or you should go in that day when -- when the doctor wanted people, they called me up or would call my house.  Used to go in the day.  So reservation, they make and have to give it to that person.
 
MARLA:  A prescription or something?  Or.

BOB:  Yeah.  A lot of time they send medicine for the patient, they have -- when they go -- when they go to Fairbanks or Tanana, and they -- and they started -- after I got on Tanana Chiefs, then -- then -- and the North Slope Borough, they got on -- they start giving pay -- pay from -- excuse me -- from Barrow.  We was on Barrow for a while.  Then later on they got to Tanana Chiefs. 

MARLA:  So you were sort of --

BOB:  They make agreement with North Slope Borough and Tanana Chiefs which way the best way which -- we would send our patient, because I have to go around -- we don't have a plane directly to Barrow, only thing they have Fairbanks, closest, get there faster, about a couple hours' flight.  And they have to go to Tanana Chiefs. 

MARLA:  So you were kind of being tossed -- Anaktuvuk Pass is being tossed back and forth between North Slope Borough and TCC? 

BOB:  Yeah. 

MARLA:  Sort of --

BOB:  They -- they make a contract, I guess, North Slope Borough pays Tanana Chiefs. 

MARLA:  Oh, okay. 

BOB:  And that long ago, I guess they -- Tanana Chiefs took over the pay -- payday or to work for Tanana Chiefs right now.  Well, they got clinic now and it make it a lot easier.  Yeah.

MARLA:  Was there ever a clinic when you were here --

BOB:  No. 

MARLA:  -- when you were a health aide?
 
BOB:  No. 

MARLA:  So it was only out of your house? 

BOB:  Yeah.  Only out of my house. 

MARLA:  How long were you a health aide until?
 
BOB:  Quite awhile.  About five years. 

MARLA:  And what made you --

BOB:  What made me? 

MARLA:  What made you want -- yeah. 

BOB:  Yeah.  And that was a good one for me to decide.  Contractors offered me a job, so right now, I took it. 

MARLA:  Right. 

BOB:  I mean, bigger payment, payday.  Bigger money.
 
MARLA:  Yeah. 

BOB:  So I just quit, go to work for carpenter, work on school.
 
MARLA:  Did people still come to you and look for help? 

BOB:  Yeah.