Stress Factors

I worked in a fi ve-and-ten, a supermarket, and a cafeteria before I worked as a laboratory technician in the blood bank of a major medical center in New York City. I worked in that blood bank for close to 9 years. Th e second half of those 9 years diff ered from the fi rst in two ways: I worked part-time in another hospital and I had become a union activist.