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And how did I come to teach in schools in Cracow? Because I taught in two. First in Nowa Huta [from 1949-1951 a separate town and from 1951 a borough of Cracow, over 200,000 residents], on the Kalinowe estate in Economics Schools Complex no. 3. Except that they didn't have a full-time position for me. So I took on typing. It went reasonably. I taught there about five years. Then after that I moved to Economics Schools Complex No. 1 on Kapucynska Street, and as there was a vacancy for a teacher in their college of further education in shorthand and correspondence in a foreign language, and they didn't have a teacher who could both type and speak German, they took me on. I was on a contract all the time, every year that contract was renewed.
In all I taught in schools for 15 years. After I was dismissed into civilian life at first I had to work, and later I didn't have to but I took the work because I wanted to earn some money on the side, and so I worked in the school until 1983. I'll tell the truth, if I'd been younger I'd probably have preferred that teaching career. But because I was a bit of an age, it was hard for me at school.
In all I taught in schools for 15 years. After I was dismissed into civilian life at first I had to work, and later I didn't have to but I took the work because I wanted to earn some money on the side, and so I worked in the school until 1983. I'll tell the truth, if I'd been younger I'd probably have preferred that teaching career. But because I was a bit of an age, it was hard for me at school.
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Leon Glazer