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$500 a Week Selling Jewelry in 1970

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telling me this maybe we can share that also the jewelry business how you worked very hard on making sure your customers were happy, right? Is that the >> Yeah, that was that was a major thing because I used to jewelry business was a competitive at those days. Okay. >> That was competitive, right? >> It was a competitive because everybody used to sell jewelry to everybody. Jewelry was a big item. Worked in 47th Street for for a from company of two two brothers and they needed a salesman. I took over the line from an elderly person who was a salesman prior to me being a salesman there. And he had a tremendous reputation in certain type of jewelry opals which was very popular those days. And I picked up the line and I started to go out and sell follow up the customers that he had. In the interim I looked at other customers as well. So I did pretty well. I I those days I used to make between three to five hundred dollars a week which was a lot of money. 1970-71 it was a lot of money those days.