An Early Start in the Oil Industry - New York Times

I GREW up in a large family in a suburb of Kansas City, Kan. I’m one of six siblings, and we had more than 50 cousins in the community.

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My grandparents, German immigrants, started a dairy. When I was young, my father and his brother ran the business, and my siblings and I helped out. I learned about business by working there. I did the payroll and worked as a receptionist and in the lab, testing milk. The summer I was 16, I got bored and convinced my father to let me work at a gas station next to the dairy. I pumped gas for the delivery trucks and other customers. I tell people that it was my first job in the oil industry.

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