Upon the death of her father, she joined the Bloomfield, New Jersey based Newark Controls Company, a metalworking firm that her father had founded.
父亲去世后，她加入了新泽西州布卢姆菲尔德（英语：Bloomfield, New Jersey）的纽瓦克控制公司（Newark Controls Company），这是由她父亲一手创立的金属加工厂。