Summarizer. Section 3. Pages 60-86. Kallie Thoreson

The author begins this section of the book still job searching in Maine.  She is still living at the Motel 6, and after some time gets two phone calls.  One is from a nursing home that says she can start working there the next morning.  She will work there on weekends making $7 an hour.  The other phone call is from The Maids.  They tell her that she can start working Monday morning and that she will make $6.65 an hour.  Overall, the first day at the nursing home goes well.  Ehrenreich serves meals to residents and cleans up after them.  She gets to know Pete, one of the cooks, who tells her a little bit about the nursing home and what she should know about it.  Later that night she went to a "tent revival" advertised by a local church.  She was looking for some entertainment, but didn't end up getting much out of the night.  On Sunday the author moved into her cottage at The Blue Heron.  It turns out that the cottage is a lot smaller than she remembers.  Ehrenreich started working for The Maids that Monday morning.  She found the work to be challenging and hard on her body.  Ehrenreich ends this section of the book with her first Friday with The Maids.  This particular September afternoon in Maine was unusually hot - 95 degrees!  The team that Ehrenreich was a part of that day ended up working in a mansion-like house.  She realized how strenuous working as a maid can be when she was assigned to scrub floors on her hands and knees.

Despite the hard work Ehrenreich comes across, this section was written rather positively.  She is hopeful when she moves to Maine and sees that she will have an easy time finding employment.  It seems as though she is also encouraged that she won't necessarily have to be a server, but can do something new.  However, at the end of this section the author seems somewhat discouraged by the last day she has worked for The Maids.