You ladies are super at multitasking. It sounds like both you and Joyce quickly moved up the line. Back in the day, the work ethic is so different. Now days, people think they're too valuable to work their way into a higher paying position. I guess it's likely the same for the guys, as well.

At the newspaper job, I started out in the art department as the head of it. The German lady who'd had the job decided she'd make more designing the fancy windows of the stores...positioning the backdrops and the manikens. So the editor was in dire need and ran an ad saying they needed someone who could draw a straight line and center things.
So I did that for a couple of years, filling in when someone was needed on the headline machine (bigger computer...) as well as putting ads together and doing the layouts. Then I got to proof-reading and setting the stories, and culminated by writing 4 different columns. One of them was covering the stock car races. (Because the editors all were into the other sports and didn't want to do the races.) By then I was learning the photography side of things.

It was hard work for almost non-existent pay. But it kept us going. And I loved all of the writing and photography.