 When I was seven years old, I started being a cashier. My dad's store, Radio Electric Company, started without TV because it was in the 40s. We didn't have TV in Tuscaloosa until 1949, I think, and he had a TV set in his store and he could pick up little glimmerings of the Memphis station, but there was not one in Birmingham at that point, as I recall. When I graduated from high school, I went to the University of Alabama for two years and my girlfriend's father ran the public television station here, so I got a job at the television station. I took a cut in salary, I went from 75 cents an hour to 40 cents an hour in the long run that paid off.