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Hekate

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58. Your mom sounds like me when my husband wanted to take a tech job in Saudi Arabia...

Mon Oct 28, 2024, 02:43 PM

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It had to have been 40 years ago — they were offering really good money for systems analysts/programmers. Pay off your US mortgage type money. I said, “They stone women like me!! “ Turns out he only got to the first level of interviews anyway — no Jews, thank you.

As for your mom’s concern about being a Catholic back then — my mom was born and raised in Colorado during the heyday of the KKK, who made no secret of how they hated Roman Catholics like her family.

PS: my dad spent 44 years at Lockheed as an inspector-supervisor — of what besides aircraft, he wouldn’t say.

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