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At the end of a waitressing shift, Kristina Lampert used to separate her tips in two piles: Canadian cash and American.

The labor — waitressing, janitorial — was physically demanding, the wages terrible, the treatment by bosses and customers often worse.

As they work out their divorce terms, Patricia is waitressing and staying at the family home, which she can't afford on her own.

While living in the Shelbourne Hotel, she took on roles very different from her wartime escapades, waitressing in cafes and selling frocks in Harrods, before taking a job as a cleaner on a passenger ship.

I do know it was huge enough that I could cut down on my waitressing shifts, and I could actually shift to being coat check.