WORKING VERY YOUNG

With eighteen years old our dear girl was working inside the Banco Hispano Americano, at first she was not happy with the change.

She was happy working in Deutz, the German Company, even she started to learn German as inside her mind was the posibility of going to Germany to work over there.


She was young, she was less of tweenty one years old, and her mother had the last word if she wanted to go out home.

Yes, that was the real state of a woman, or a girl with less than 21 years, she was on charge of her parents, her mother, or her husband.


A woman can´t  go to a country of Europe like Germany if she was less than 21 years and her mother, in the case of Cuca, said NO.


Her mother instead thought it could be better that this girl get a job in the Banco Hispano where his brother was working already. So, her mind will be out of the idea or going out and trying to work in Germany.


Cuca wa a nice good daughter, and said “yes mom” and started to learn Bank´s business to get a seat in this Bank.


On the year 1964 with eighteen years Cuca was working in the Bank instead of Deuta, her studies of German was over, and she began to study French instead.

Inside the Bank offices there were hundred of young people working. Lots of young girls and some boys too.

Work was easy those years and there was the option of getting a job in the Bank Oficces nearly every year, Banesto, Central, Hispano, Bilbao Vizcaya, Santander, were banks than usually have lot of places to these young of the sixties.

Nothing was necessary to get the job, not any high studies, only make a hard exam and get the place.

If a young have high studies it was better for her/him as the Company gave some points to add to their exam.


Cuca was a good student, in fact she have liked to go to the university if that could have been possible, but without a father and with a widow mother without any penssion it was necessary that this girl works very soon.

Working in a bank was good, nice people inside, a seat to be resting the full day while you work, not having to be up so many time as other kind of works, and lot of young people like you that make a fuss frequently, talking aloud in the dinner room when they spent the half an hour free time to lunch.

Soon this girl make some friends inside the Bank Office, and started to have something similar like a club of girls and boys that goes to the mountains in winter or to the swiming pool in summer.

Life was easy and funny for all these people of similar age and time enough when they get out from the Bank office.

Madrid was a nice big city to live and to go every place without any danger.

You could walk along the streets without not any problems, not thiefs or bad people, the dictator was strong and the police were looking to have peace on the streets.

Tourists were coming to Spain those years and life seems beauty and very easy of living.


Cuca with some money of her own bought a pair of skis, (long slender runners made of wood, plastic or metal used in gliding over the snow) and started to go to the mountains near Madrid.

She wanted to learn how to ski and have fun every weekend of winter.

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