After passing out from the technical school in 1939 she chose a career related to trade unions and she worked for a Stockholm Hotel Group in their personnel department and then in a telephone company as Ombudsman. During the later part of the war years she worked as emergency response adviser in Stockholm working Board. She got married in 1943 to James Roessel, a Swedish journalist.[1] She became a member of the board of Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (TCO's Board).