I decided to get a regular job and go to night school to finish my education. I got a job at Coleman Oldsmobile Cadillac as a receptionist/bookkeeper-helper and moved in with an older woman to save money. She said she just wanted a companion (she was lonely) and I could live there rent-free. Sounded good to me.

I had only been there a couple of weeks when I realized it would not work. She was a strange lady. I shared my belief in Jesus with her and she decided I could not be for real. She started accusing me of all kinds of things. I found an apartment I could afford and moved out. I found out later that she was a Madam and had a huge prostitution ring in the area. She did not want to stand in the light. I planted seeds while I was there and can only hope they took.

Right after that I lost my job.

I talked to Mr. Monroe (president of the College) about moving back into the dorm. He allowed me to open an account with the school and move back in. I went back to washing and ironing and decided to take evening classes as well as full time day classes. It was cheaper in the long run to do that. I received two years credits in one year and received my diploma in Jr. Accounting (Associates Degree) in July 1963.

I owed the school two months work to pay for my education and dorm fees and on going living expenses. They allowed me to live in the dorm while I fulfilled my obligations. I worked in the office setting up schedules for folks who were getting their education. I loved that job.

Mr. Monroe offered me a teaching position in the bookkeeping department. I turned it down because I knew I would not enjoy teaching. Many years later, when I home-schooled my grandson for a while, I found out I was correct. God did not give me the gift nor the patience needed to teach.

I was offered a job in the accounting department at Texaco. Their policy at that time was "employees may not date other employees." I knew I would probably break that rule and turned it down.

I accepted a job as part time bookkeeper for an automotive body shop.

Rom 13:7-8 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

John 3:19-21 "And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. "For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. "But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."

2 Cor 9:10-11 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God

Background Me leaving Post Office in Port Arthur Texas taken by a friend 1963