44. WHAT TO DO?
THE METER IS RUNNING After becoming acquainted with my Russian Hill neighborhood and beginning to 'climatize' myself to city life, 'the meter was running.' I had a great apartment but no income. I needed to find a way to support myself. I come from a family of teachers: my dad was a teacher as was my mom. My brother was a professor and my sister-in-law had been a junior high teacher. Even several of my cousins were teachers. But, oddly, I had never thought of being a teacher and hadn't been comfortable when I had attempted to do so. So, I arrived in the city determined not to teach . I was desperate to find a job that wasn't repugnant to me. 'PLAN A' I did have an inkling of a plan. The city is a place of commerce and I thought maybe that's where my future lie. As a graduate student and when I was teaching at Happy Valley, I experimented with woodworking and building very simple furniture... The idea had been to keep th