[Today’s run: 6 miles\u00a0 Then some fishing this afternoon which included much rowing.)<\/p>\n
Yesterday, part 1<\/a> was about the jobs I had while I was in high school.\u00a0 That overlapped a bit into college because I kept my summer job at the Iowa State Fairgrounds for the summer after my freshman year of college.\u00a0 But then I transferred to a different school and settled in a bit more.<\/p>\n [Somewhere in the high school jobs I also worked for two overnight shifts as a bus boy at a Perkins.\u00a0 Joe Stevens helped me get that job.\u00a0 I am not good for overnight shifts!\u00a0 So I gave him my one week notice after the first night and I worked one more time that week.\u00a0 I’m remembering more as I attempt to recall these things.]<\/p>\n My first job at Iowa State U. was in the campus mail room.\u00a0 I think Loren Wobig helped me get that job.\u00a0 We sorted mail, and did a little bit of campus mail pickup with a van.\u00a0 I think we might have also helped some with outgoing mail.\u00a0 They had some postal machines and full time workers who did most of that.<\/p>\n I was at that for a year or so and then I got a better job.\u00a0 Jeff Winger announced to our college-age church group that his physics research office was looking for another computer operator.\u00a0 I applied for that and got in.\u00a0 I worked on a terminal connected to a Vax 11\/780 computer.\u00a0 I ran programs which did curve fitting.\u00a0 I sometimes messed with 9-track tape back-ups.\u00a0 I also helped with filling gamma ray detectors with liquid nitrogen.\u00a0 And I did some artwork for papers published in Physics Review<\/a>.\u00a0 I think I worked with the physics group for about 3 years\u00a0 (I was in college for a long time!)<\/p>\n [Update: I also did some occasional work for a man in our church that had a rental house.\u00a0 We mostly put up drywall.\u00a0 But I remember trimming hedges for him.\u00a0 I once broke a new sink by accidentally hitting it with a hammer \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Today’s run: 6 miles\u00a0 Then some fishing this afternoon which included much rowing.) Yesterday, part 1 was about the jobs I had while I was in high school.\u00a0 That overlapped a bit into college because I kept my summer job at the Iowa State Fairgrounds for the summer after my freshman year of college.\u00a0 But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}