A Summary of 70+ jobs
Age: 16-17 High School junior, 1943-44, first four jobs.
Soda jerk, dishwasher, movie usher, bowling pin-setter.
Age: 17-21, U. S. Navy, 1944-48.
PRIMARILY SIGNALMAN, gunner, coxswain, life guard,
storekeeper, mailman.
Age: 21-22, post-Navy/pre-college 18 months, 1948-49.
Editor, cleaning route driver, store clerk (sewing machines)
taxicab driver, editorial artist, factory worker, tire repairman,
commercial neon sign-designer, store clerk (vaccum cleaners,)
automotive parts clerk.
Age: 22-25, student at U. of Illinois, 1949-52, three years.
Coal-shoveler, tree-planter, furnace-tender, furniture-
mover, juke-box repairman, phone sales, delivery driver,
taxicab driver (2) (a second city.)
Age: 25-55, teacher, 1952-82, 30 years, except for 15 months.*
PRIMARILY SPEECH AND ENGLISH, drama, debate,
composition, English department chairman (one year,) play
director, set- builder and designer, producer, debate coach.
TEMPORARY/part-time, while teaching, summers, etc.
Youth club-manager, flea market manager, school bus driver,
gas-station attendant, radio announcer, educational advisor to
U. S. Army in Korea, movie reviewer, TV Guide assistant
editor, dairy route supervisor, talent agent for a TV cowboy,
bakery route driver, personnel manager, owner-operator of
a diner (serving, grilling, managing) house-husband, industrial
“spy.”
Age: 55-present, 1982-2009, retired, 27 years (in May.)
Self-employed publisher, editor, graphics consultant, technical
writer, mock juror, courier, adjunct professor (two community
colleges, one private university.)
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* Took off 15 months, 1957-58. (See above temporaries for a few.)
Don’t hold me to numbers, dates, etc. This is strictly as memory serves (or doesn’t.)
Whew! Got tired just recalling it. Think I’ll take a nap.
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