Duane's Other Jobs

[Or "How I worked my way through college and grad school"]

WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL (early 1970's)...

  • mowed lawns at a trailer park

  • did part-time farm labor in a local florist shop

  • did part-time farm labor picking cherries near Lake Ontario

WHILE AN UNDERGRAD (mid 1970's)...

  • worked the late-night shift a couple of summers at a Ragu spaghetti sauce factory

  • worked one summer on the "aerosol" product production line in an A&P factory, making hair-spray, deoderant, bug killer, shaving cream and air freshener...also worked at the end of the production line stacking lots and lots of heavy boxes onto wooden palettes

  • played bass in a pretty good rock band ("Wyatt") that had gigs all over western New York...also occasionally filled in on bass for a local jazz band

  • sat in on bass for several months for a really bad (but locally successful) Country-and-Western band ("Country Hobos") that played in some extremely seedy establishments in western New York (their regular bassist was in jail for trying to rob a gas station)

  • worked part-time at the Brockport College library, mostly shelving books

  • had a brief part-time stint at a pizza restaurant doing both cooking and deliveries

  • worked one summer as a Pinkerton night watchman at an apartment complex

WHILE A GRAD STUDENT (late 1970's)...

  • worked part-time at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf as a consultant on experimental design and statistical analysis

  • was an intern in the Human Factors Department at Eastman Kodak, assisting with experimental design, software engineering and data analysis

  • taught undergrad courses at the University of Rochester Department of Psychology (one semester of "Statistics", two semesters of "Sensation and Perception", one semester of "Cognitive Psychology")