Noting that most available jobs are in the “hospitality sector”. She sets 2 rules for herself. Firstly, she cannot use any of her skills derived from her education or regular job and secondly, she had to take the highest paying job offered to her and keep it. She then fills out applications and, much to her amusement, the process of getting a job is as exhausting as finding housing. At a supermarket she also applied and includes a fifteen minute computer interview and the interview is multiple choice and apparently the funniest question in the interview is "are you an honest person?" » Days pass and none of the 20 establishments have called her for an individual interview. She discovered that finding a job is all about being in the right place at the right time. She eventually lands a job at a "family restaurant", taking a position as a waitress at Hearth Side Restaurant. His colleague Gail, a middle-aged woman, coached Ehrenreich for the next eight years.