. ...my mom worked since I was in kindergarten...she waited till then because she couldnt afford a baby sitter and there was no such thing as Day Care back then....
....She was smart as a whip, especially wwhen it came to math, and started out in Accounting at RCA. Growing up, none of my other friends moms worked. We were looked down on in most of the neighborhoods we lived in,because back then...women didnt work, and the talk in the coffee clutch was about how...those Spencer boys are out of control..(probably true to an extent
) .....anyway....she didnt learn to drive until she was in her forties...always paid someone she worked with to pick her up in the morning and drop her off in the evening.
At the end of every month they had something called "closing", where they balanced the books. She would go in at 6 am and get home around 1 am. She always went that "extra mile" and made sure her work was always done...correctly. She loved to tell the story about the time she went to buy her first new car. She went to the dealer and the salesman smiled and told her...mam...come back with your husband. She replied, that wont be necessary, that she would go purchase a car somewhere else....to which the salesman replied...mam..sit down...I,ll sell you the car.
She saved up for years, and bought us a brand new home for us to live in, after years of being poor and living in duplexes. In the 1980,s she was made the Manager of Accounting...she was the first woman in ANY management posistion in the history of RCA.
A few years before she passed, I went with her to her bank to take care fo a few Money Market and CD,s she had there. The woman takineg care of her made a mistake in her math...which my mom saw immediately and pointed out to her, She told my mom that, that wasnt the case...her math was correct...my mother insisted. So the woman went over to the Bank Manager and had a breif discussion with him. The Bank Manager rose from his desk and came over to my mother..slightly red faced and said...Mrs Spencer..Im so sorry...you were correct and the mistake has been corrected. I just looked at my brother and grinned...that was my mom !
