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Ann Fitka

Clerk/Bookkeeper

Ann Fitka works as a clerk/book keeper for the City of Marshall. She works six hours a day, five days a week. All her training was done on the job. She says she had to learn everything on her own.

Ann expects to work at this job as long as she can. The people she works with most of the time are Florence Peter and Alvin Owletuck Sr. Alvin is also her boss and the mayor of Marshall.

Four responsibilities of Ann's job are: taking the minutes of the meetings, preparing monthly financial reports, writing and recording checks and doing pay roll.

The best things about Ann's job are working with numbers and doing secretarial work. Ann says that she is more relaxed in the office and that she likes being around the people she works with. The worst thing about her job is not knowing enough about computers.

The advice she gives the young people who might want to do her job later is to take courses in bookkeeping and in local government.

Interviewed by:

Gerilyn Fitka


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