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lapfog_1

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5. i worked all the way while in college
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 12:46 AM
Aug 6

in various jobs on campus... first as a "research assistant" ( as a freshman ), then as a TA, eventually my department chairman went to bat for me to become the very first undergraduate Instructor ( full faculty member ) in the history of the university.

In my last summer before graduation I took a summer intern job at a early "time sharing" ( now we would say "cloud provider" ) company in a nearby big city ( Kansas City )... which morphed into a full time gig for both me and my new wife ( a former student of mine at the university ).

As I age out of the work force, finding new jobs has been harder and harder ( partly because i became highly specialized, partly due to fear that places that might employ me would lose me to a job better suited to my talents and salary requirements ).

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