Hank and Terri Doktorski: Employment

After Hank retired from Public Service Electric and Gas, he and Terri had more time for vacations, such as this cruise to Alaska in 1994.

Hank's Employment

Hank worked at several jobs since he began fulltime work at the age of sixteen:

In 1960 Hank began working for a company which, he felt, offered greater promise of promotion: Public Service Electric & Gas. He began working in the storeroom at the New Brunswick plant, then moved up through various positions in the underground department: helper, second-class cable splicer, first-class cable splicer, chief cable splicer and foreman.

After some two decades as a wage earner, he accepted a promotion to the management of the company, where he became the underground division supervisor and was responsible for three foremen and 39 chiefs, splicers and helpers. He instituted sweeping changes in accountability and radically increased the competency of the Trenton underground department. The East Brunswick Vocational and Technical School offered him a position teaching classes in electricity but he declined as his work in Trenton was enough to keep him busy. Hank retired from Public Service in 1992 after 32 years with that company. Since retiring he spends his time gardening, wine making and traveling.

Terri’s Employment

Terri worked at her father’s company, Thomas and Chadwick, for several years. Pictured are: Mary Jane Garbosky, Joan Thomas (daughter of Mr. Thomas), and Terri (1952).

For the greater part of her life, Terri worked ceaselessly as a housewife, mother and homemaker and raised four children. However, before, during and after this time, she worked for several companies in various capacities—such as secretary, administrative assistant, customer service agent, teacher’s aid, etc.:

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