Most hourly jobs go through MDot.com Most admin salary jobs come in through temp agencies and are a temp to hire. Admin's are paid according to their boss. I got paid the same as a Director's Admin--higher than a Chief Engineer's Admin--but that was because I earned it. That is, I helped our Japanese guy communicate with the engineers to produce a couple of patents. If I stayed there longer, I could have ended up with a good retirement! But after Dad died, someone had to take care of Mom until she died at 94. She did not take Dad's death well.

The biggest mistake I made while working there was to accept a package when they offered them to their employees during the recession. I enjoyed Ford Motor Company and missed the Stamping Department. But I also knew taking a package was right, as this was my father's last year of his battle with bladder cancer. He died the following year at age 89.