Cas Holman

I was like, she's a friend.

When I stopped cooking, I wanted an office job.

I'd never worked in an office.

And I think I was 25 or 24 or something at that point.

So I went to a temp agency.

And at that point, I had a college degree, theoretically.

But I'd never worked in an office.

I had to take typing in high school, but I intentionally did really poorly because I didn't want to be a secretary.

That was the job in 1990.

Computers were not part of my life.

Right, right.

Or I never imagined typing would be about anything other than administration.

So they were like, you don't have any experience with anything that relates to this.

I was like, but I have a degree, so office job, right?

So I was able to get a couple of different placements through this temp agency.

One was with AIDS Walk, a nonprofit.

And there were a couple other nonprofits where the work itself wasn't difficult, but the emotional attachment to what the work was about.

Sure.

I was like, I am too sensitive for this.

I don't need to cry after a day's work in an office about the bigger picture of the work we're doing.