Women make the world go round.

You know, they're sure that their bosses answer all their phone calls and, you know, answer

their mail and that there's enough coffee in the office.

Once upon a time, that's how it was in the American office, as any viewer of TV's madmen

could tell you.

On this edition of, I'm the job from Hire to Retired, we have a profile of Carol Davis

and want to tell you right off the bat that our reporter Katie Davis is Carol's daughter.

She saw her mom rise from typist and switchboard operator to having one of the most important

jobs in her profession.

Her story in a moment first, a word about express employment professionals.

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Job hopping is what people do these days.

Many will have four different jobs in just the first decade out of college.

So let's consider a woman who worked at the same place for 39 years.

Carol Davis is 79 now.

She started her job in the 1960s, a time when the number of women in the workforce was

increasing, even though their ranks were very thin in management and in many professions.

Here's Katie Davis.

Morning rush hasn't started, and Carol Davis pulls into the driveway of her old office.

It was a private home and then converted into the American Psychiatric Association.

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