Reading comments concerning Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College brought back some memories.
I grew up in the 1950s, and my first job out of high school was at the home office of the G.C. Murphy Co. in McKeesport. Computers were just being introduced, and back then they filled an entire room. Any employee interested could take an aptitude test. I was fascinated by them and took the test. At my follow-up interview, my boss said I did extremely well, but since I was newly married and would likely leave to have children, I was not suitable for training. I realize they could never say that today, but at that time I agreed with the decision. And within a year I left and had my first child.
But that was not the end of the story. At the age of 30, when my youngest child went off to kindergarten, I went to college, and five years later I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.
They say women can have it all and that may be true, but maybe just not all at the same time.
Linda Miller
North Huntingdon