Hilda’s grandfather reached out to her to write his memoirs
Hilda was aware that her Grandfather was a respected HVAC company owner, but she never knew more details of his life.
He was a grumpy seasoned man by the time she was born, and never took the time to be friendly towards Hilda.
This made it all the more astonishing when he messaged Hilda last summer and asked if she’d help him write his memoirs. Hilda’s grandfather had studied some of his journalism work from school, and thought she was the right choice to help him tell his story. In the beginning, Hilda thought memoirs about the Heating and A/C industry would be dull, but she could not have been more wrong. It turns out that her grandfather was the first man in this locale to hire female Heating and A/C techs. By that time, women were only allowed to be secretaries or office drones, and not allowed to work with the furnaces. It was not “women’s work” at the time, but Hilda’s grandfather got a task application from a young woman who was very skilled with gas furnaces. Hilda’s grandfather broke the “gender line” and made the young woman a full heating upgrade tech, something that a lot of the male employees detested. Her grandfather told them all to accept this young woman as a heating expert of equal skill to the men, or they would be fired. He lost twenty nice heating techs that morning, he said, however updated them with new, better people, including a lot more young women. That first female heating expert that Hilda’s grandfather hired was very well known to her, because she was her grandmother.