TRUDY: Then I start working in the store as a clerk, so I wasn't eligible to be running all over. People knew that so they never called me 'til lunchtime or 5 o'clock or in the evening. That's how good they were, they just never bothered to call.

But if it's real bad, they would call the store and tell me: “I need help right now.” So, it wasn't very often that I was running out on calls that were emergency.

KAREN: So, there was a time where you worked as the health aide and you worked in the store?

TRUDY: No, I worked as a health aide at the store, even I was at the store, the boss said I could work at the store but if I'm called out I could go.

KAREN: Was this before you were paid as a health aide?

TRUDY: Uh-hum (affirmative). I wasn't get much pay, well I should say my husband wasn't getting much pay so we both needed to work. So I worked. My brother-in-law was the boss of the crab cannery. Then I moved down there. Yeah, he put me to work as a crab shaker.

KAREN: Once, they started paying you for the health aide though, you just did that?

TRUDY: I still did it because what money they gave us was very little.

There was no way that we could make ends meet if we were by ourselves. Each health aide was by herself. There was just no way. There was very small earnings. But we didn't care.

KAREN: So, two jobs and raising eight kids. Holy cow!

TRUDY: I didn't have eight at that time I worked in the store or the cannery. Now, my youngest boy that I had when I was becoming a health aide he's forty-one.