Corene Broussard:  

My first job was at Pacific Bell, where I got paid $68.00 per week to be a key punch operator. What I remember most about it is I thought I would work there for only two years. . My goal was to work for Pacific Bell for two years, and move on. I ended up staying and retiring after 31 years of service. In my 31 years I worked as a key punch operator, office clerk and finally as a pay phone coin collector. In my personal life I got married, divorced and had one daughter, Tracie. My daughter went on to college were she received her Bachelor and Masters Degree in Public Communications. She is now a Financial Aid Director at one of the universities in Los Angeles. Tracie had one son, Darren, who now is 10 and loves sports. During those years I never remarried. We lived in Los Angeles, and finally I purchased a home in Fontana. After college Tracie worked at various universities in Los Angeles. She always wanted to work for a HBCU using her skills to help African American students. She decided to try her luck working for Prairie View A&M in Houston Texas. but only if I came too. By that time I was retired, so "what the hell" I moved to Houston also. We both had our own homes within a mile of each other. ...Expand for more