Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beaming waitress, the same woman who took my order, brings the steaming hot food to our garish orange table within minutes. Many glasses of water and beer later, the curry is gone. Having successfully avoided eating any suspicious seafood, I am all the more grateful for the familiar green curry, which was cheaper and much spicier than its Harvard Square incarnations...
When we leave, the tiny Red Thai Cuisine kitchen is ready to close. The waitress picks out random tables to clean as the gleaming steel machines of the kitchen are slowly shut...
...care, even on two paychecks. And he is getting a friendly response from many people in the Central Valley who, like the middle class all over the country, are feeling squeezed. Michael Archer, 42, drives a scrap truck for a rendering plant, while his wife Janie works as a waitress in a coffee shop. Their three children, two boys and a girl in their 20s, are all married with children and all working at dead-end jobs: grocery clerk, bartender, waitress. "You can't raise a family on what they make," says Archer, "but those are the only kinds...
Trying to combine a family life with a career, many women choose entrepreneurship as a way of gaining some control over their schedules. Phyllis Gillis, for example, quit her night job as a waitress in 1982 and started Entrepreneurial Communications, a Princeton public relations firm, so that she could spend more time with her six-year-old son. Says Gillis, author of the 1984 book Entrepreneurial Mothers: "I was willing to spin my wheels for a while and grow my company slowly while my son was small. Now it's full speed ahead...
...foster children and the workers who care for them are black. Local residents, many of whom joined in a lawsuit against the home, fretted about falling property values; others argued that the babies' visiting relatives might commit crimes. "They don't belong here," says Mary Meyer, a retired waitress. "The city pushed this down our throats." That sense of alienation was accentuated by the city's failure to hold public hearings or educate the neighborhood about its plans. "It's a racial issue, but it's also a political issue, an economic issue, a class issue and a fear issue...