Having studied piano since she was in junior high school. my wife gave piano lessons to the children of the neighborhood after we were married. At the time, I was in my third year as an elementary school teacher; I had 40 students in my class. My salary was low (40 percent of it went to pay our rent), so I, like many other teachers at the time, supplemented my income by tutoring a child privately after …showed first 75 words of 828 total…

…showed last 75 words of 828 total…experienced after most of the other women in the neighborhood got jobs. She feels she is participating in society, she enjoys the human contact at work, and she is making an income, allowing her to buy things she wants and help with the children's educational expenses. She has also been able to catch up with the goings-on in the world of women's fashion that she had missed when she spent all her time at home.