Some "Real" Summer Jobs that helped to pay for College:

This information is posted for those students of mine who are now supporting themselves while going to college. Professors were students at one time; many had some rather odd jobs when they were undergraduates. I learned a lot from each of mine. Below are the major ones I had.

1966  Assistant, Natural History Museum Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Full-time day job. Moved 300,000 books to new shelving. Got to "explore" the innards of the Smithsonian during my lunch hours.

1966  Waiter, Hot Shopps Restaurant, Arlington, Virginia
Full-time night job. Made a lot of money on tips. Met a lot of people. Learned how to juggle a lot of things at one time.

1967  Assistant, Science Information Exchange, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Full-time day job. Microfilmed 250,000 research project abstracts - found out how relatively little money goes to astronomy.

1967  Busboy, Holiday Inn, Rosslyn, Virginia
Part-time night job, which I didn't like. Not too much "corporate spirit" at that time.

1969  Dynamiter, Martin Marietta, Concrete Materials Division, Topeka, Kansas
My most enjoyable blue-collar job. Hard and dangerous 14 hour days in a limestone rock quarry. Our crew members went to work with white, brown, or black skin, but we all came out white - chalky limestone dust was everywhere. My maternal grandfather was a coal miner in Oklahoma. His crew members went to work with white, red, brown, or black skin, but they all came out black - powdery coal dust was everywhere.

1971  Day Laborer, Manpower Training and Development Corporation, Topeka, Kansas
Usually, I was sent to an Owens-Corning fiberglass warehouse to load and unload rolls of fiberglass into and out of boxcars or semi-tractor trailers. This was a "hell-hole" job. The temperature got up to 140 F in the rafters of warehouse. The fiberglass made your skin feel on fire, eyes water, and lungs ache. (Really motivated me to gain future employment in computing).