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DG: What did you do when you first came back?

KS: Went into insurance.

TS: Yeah I...

KS: You went to see somebody at Occidental and Aetna.

TS: There was...

KS: Who referred you to that?

TS: I was a member of the Utah bar, but I had not served as a lawyer in the state of Utah for five years. Consequently I had to wait one year to get...

KS: Establish residence.

TS: Get my residence in the State of Washington to take the bar examination and I had to take it over again. So I figured that if I got a job eight hours a day in one place, I'd never get to meet people, so I thought well, if I could find insurance agent's job I could be, meet people and have an excuse to see strangers and meet them, so I don't remember how I heard about George Rourke, who had a general insurance agency, and got a agent's, sub-agent's position with his office and I somehow found an Occidental Life Insurance was looking for an agent and so I got an agent's, agency position with Occidental, then having agency position in both life and casualty, I, I got an office in the Jackson building on 6th and Jackson. And it provided a good living for us.

DG: Well a lot of the things that you chose, so you... you were pretty focused on what you wanted to do in your life then.

TS: Well, I think so, because... come to think of it, I had to do a lot of thinking, but a lot of these decisions were just forced upon me. [Laughs] No other decisions to make. [Laughs] And fortunately, circumstances were such that it was the right decision.

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