Pamela Hedin:  

Life I had two children, first a girl born 1967...Susan, and then a boy James born 1977. I now have three Grandchildren...Katie 20, Eddie 17, and Donald 15. I was married once and stayed in that marriage for 15 years, I have never married again. Now I am single and love it, for the first time in my life I can do whatever I want. I work for the State of California for the Environmental Protection Agency, specifically Pesticide Regulation Division. I am the Executive Secretary to the two Assistant Directors. But, I have only worked for the State for ten years. My past employment was mainly male occupations, because that's where the money was. I worked in the woods for a couple of years (with my husband) cutting and stacking logs. I worked in a boat factory and also worked 8 years in an open pit mining operation owned by GAF, they made the tiny rocks that are on your roof shingles. It was located in Wisconsin and it was rough, cold work... but three times the pay of any other job in the area...I was hired because of the "Women's Lib" movement...the main office told this company that they had to hire women (because GAF sold film to the government) and believe me I wasn't there because I wanted to be a liberated woman, I was there because the pay was so good...and it was a little rough, these guys had wor...Expand for more