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we will see what can be done." So far so good.
Again, as three years earlier, I faced the prospect of teaching for a year or so to obtain finds for the next move. It was the mixture as before, only now New York replaced the University as my immediate objective. Not long after graduation, I found a position teaching in Piedmont, a community in the Bay area. I taught art in three grammar schools, on a schedule that rotated daily. With my first paycheck I opened a saving account in a bank. It was clear, however, that on my teacher's salary alone, a good long time would elapse before I had the railway fare and even a small reserve left on arrival in New York. I must find something more.
I decided that I now knew enough about weaving to give private instruction. I spread the world far and wide among neighbors and my mother's women friends about the joys of weaving and the pocket-money potentially to be earned from it. Pupils would be welcome to practice my loom in the attic