When Betty Rollin graduated from college in the late 1950s, she couldnOCOt find a husband and she didnOCOt want to be a secretary. So, in the days before womenOCOs liberation, she started a careerOCoor, as she puts it, ofell intoOCothen groped my way in and out ofOCothree careers.OCO "Am I Getting Paid For This?" is a love story about work by the author of "First, You Cry." It is the part funny, part not-so-funny story of her three careersOCofirst acting, then writing, then television news broadcasting at NBCOCoand what work itself came to mean to Betty Rollin. Recreating the confusion and unhappiness as well as the considerable glitter of it all, Betty tells us how it felt to make the audition rounds; how she landed editing jobs at "Vogue" and then at "Look," where her ostar beatOCO found her hunting the Real Doris Day and trying not to doze in Dean MartinOCOs golf cart; how it felt to wake up one morning as a network correspondent for NBC NewsOConot entirely (some would say not even remotely) equipped to handle that job, but a quick study. Yet even the glamour and the unexpected triumphs did not prepare her for the realization that work had become the central focus of her life. And like many women before and since, she was both surprised and alarmed to find herself ofeeling things like passion and excitement in what seemed to be the wrong roomOCothe office.OCO "Am I Getting Paid For This?" is a book for women of all ages, who will warm to this charming, smart, and funny woman who for the longest time didnOCOt know where she was headed, but who finally found her way, with thanks toOCoas she puts itOCooneed, nerve, and a few kind friends.OCO Betty Rollin is a writer and an award-winning journalist. A former correspondent for NBC News, she now contributes reports of PBSOCOs oReligion and Ethics Newsweekly.OCO Once a writer and editor for both "Vogue" and "Look" magazines, she has written for many national publication, including "The New York Times." She is the bestselling author of six previous books, including "First, You Cry, Last Wish," and "HereOCOs the Bright Side: Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce, and Other Bum Raps." She lives in New York City with her husband, a mathematician."