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Caroline, who was used to being woken up by her phone's alarm clock every morning, woke up a little late the next day.

"Get up quickly when you wake up, it's already past eight o'clock." Minnie held the child in one hand, and sorted out the newspapers left by Han Sheng with the other hand.

There are no curtains and no partitions in the front hall of the apartment.Caroline didn't feel it last night, but during the day, she felt a little uncomfortable.

"Okay, okay, I'll tidy up right away." Caroline stroked her hair in embarrassment, then simply tidied up the bed and walked to the sink for washing.

Thanks to Chicago's growing water system, Caroline found a little bit of modern convenience.When the cool water splashed on her face, Caroline suddenly remembered the joy she felt between the lines in the letter she received from Minnie a few months ago when she mentioned that she and her husband had moved into an apartment with running water.

It would be better if the apartment had a toilet and electricity... Caroline couldn't help thinking.

In the kitchen, I warmed up two slices of leftover bread from yesterday for breakfast. Caroline filled her stomach with cold milk while thinking about work.

No house, no savings, no insurance, no job, Caroline has no sense of security at this moment.So although she told her sister that she was just looking for these two days, she actually made up her mind to find a job before Sunday.

When Minnie finished tidying the room and started to mend, she happened to see Caroline spread out the only clothes in the suitcase on the bed, and then stood beside the bed with her hips akimbo with a sad face.It was the end of August, and Caroline was wearing an old blue-spotted muslin blouse and a faded brown skirt, in addition to the blue cotton skirt she had worn yesterday.

Although she doesn't have much experience in job hunting, Caroline knows that in addition to ability and a confident attitude, clean and tidy clothes are also very important for job hunting. Unfortunately, these two sets of clothes can't meet Caroline's inner requirements.After thinking about it, she still changed into the clean set of clothes on the bed. She sweated a lot in the car yesterday, and she always felt that the dress on her body was stained with sweat.

Before going out, Caroline ran to the kitchen and wrapped another piece of bread in a handkerchief for lunch, which attracted Minnie's slight glance.

"Good luck to you!" Minnie took the hands of the child in her arms and waved them together.

"Thanks Minnie, I will."

When she went downstairs, Caroline stuffed the handkerchief with the bread into her backpack, and the only money she had was in the middle of the backpack.She knows that eating only bread is not healthy, but there are countless things that worry her more than eating healthy.

Although the return of Carrie's memory made Caroline no longer have any difficulties in life and communication, but now she doesn't even have a primary school diploma. It is definitely a fantasy to regain her teaching job, and clerical work will not be too good try to find.

So Caroline decided to go to the office building on the other side of the river to try her luck first, to see if she could find a job in a reception office. She remembered that such a job did not require many diplomas for job seekers, and Caroline now The appearance of a mark of integrity is a plus for most positions.

There is a bakery on the first floor of the apartment. The aroma of baked bread made Caroline, who had just finished breakfast, sniff her nose hard. The taste of freshly baked bread and leftover bread is really different!She quickened her pace to get rid of the alluring aroma, and walked east along Van Buren Street.

It is close to the city center. At this time, Chicago can be regarded as the top-ranked big city in the United States. Although it is not as prosperous as the first-tier cities a hundred years later, there are still many buildings. It is cheap to build buildings when the city is just emerging, and the newly built nearby There are many grand buildings.What bothered Caroline was that there were not many companies that posted "Hiring", and the companies that did not post it could not be concluded that they would not recruit people.

Why is there no market now, 58 and Wujoy?As an emerging industrial city, Chicago didn't even have any job openings suitable for a young girl like Caroline in the advertisement section of the newspaper. To find a job, she had to ask companies one by one, Caroline complained in her heart.

Walking east to the other side of the river, Caroline looked around, looking at the pedestrians coming and going and the employees rushing past with briefcases, while secretly considering which company she should go into first for consultation.After hesitating for about a minute, she pushed the door and walked into a six-story building on the side of the street. There was a "Carmela & Bena" sign outside the first floor of the building.Behind the glass partition near the door sat a gentleman with gray hair and a kind face who was looking at the account book. Caroline decided to ask the old gentleman first.

"Hello, excuse me, is your company recruiting a receptionist?" Caroline walked to the old man's desk and asked softly.

The old man looked up at Caroline, calmed himself down, and said with a smile, "I don't think we're going to recruit, we don't have this position, if I have to count, it might be me."

The old man's answer made Caroline blush, and she suddenly realized that the "front desk" job that she imagined at the door of the company every day, answering the phone, sending emails, and receiving couriers, should not have appeared now, and just now Near the city center, the lobbies of those hotels seemed to be full of well-dressed men standing or sitting behind the reception desk.As a result, my own question is a bit out of date.

"Excuse me, may I ask if you need some staff in the office?" Now that she asked, Caroline decided to finish the question with a smile.

"Not yet." The old man was not impatient, "We have no shortage of people for the time being, but if you can type and shorthand, there should be many companies around here who need it."

Caroline thanked the old gentleman and walked out of the gate disappointed.

Typing and shorthand, two skills that are rarely mentioned in modern society, have been regarded as the first necessary skills for professional women to seek jobs in the past 100 years.Some girls' schools also offer training courses specifically for young girls, for a small fee.

In the United States in 1889, women accounted for more than half of typists and stenographers.With a little pursuit, girls who don't want to waste their lives in factories are fighting for the few office jobs that women can do.

It's a pity that Caroline is not familiar with these two skills.As a modern person who is proficient in using computer keyboards, it is certain that he can type, but now the company uses antique mechanical printers like the ones in museums later on. It is necessary to adjust the line spacing and typesetting by yourself. There is no backspace, and even if you type a wrong letter. .If there is a printer that can allow Caroline to practice for a few days, she is confident to give it a try, but it is obvious that this kind of opportunity is as hard to find as a good job.As for shorthand, Caroline had learned a little in the interpreting class, but those few symbols and real shorthand were two different things.

Caroline tried her best to ask four or five companies on this street, and sure enough, as the old gentleman in the first one said, two companies said they needed typists and stenographers, but half-baked people like Caroline obviously There is no chance.The last company needs an accountant.Caroline wanted to try to seize this opportunity, and reassured the gentleman in charge of personnel recruitment that it would be a good idea to settle accounts, and it was okay to try it out for a day without paying salary, but because she had neither a training diploma nor reliable work experience, she was stuck. Rowling was still declined.Although the gentleman did not survive Caroline's expectant eyes and left her name, Caroline knew that the chances were slim.

After running around all morning with no results, Caroline was tired and thirsty.She didn't bring any water, and she didn't have the nerve to ask the company she was looking for to drink, so she walked into a small restaurant on the street that looked clean.The cheapest things on the menu are fifteen cents for a cup of coffee and a side of potato soup.Caroline ordered a soup, and ate the bread she brought in the morning with the soup. After paying with distress, she had the cheek to leave without tipping the waiter.

I really need a job, the idea could not have been clearer in Caroline's mind.The feeling of having nothing and not knowing what to do next can be really anxiety-provoking.

She imagined that maybe she could find a school to improve typing and shorthand skills, so that it would be very simple to find a job.But when I thought about my poverty-stricken situation, and my sister and brother-in-law who expected her to pay for board and lodging quickly to share the rent, I felt that my thinking was too simple.

Why don't you go back to the mall in the city center and try, department store salesperson, you don't need many extra skills.Caroline thought of this, turned and walked to the other side of the block.