A History in Work

I started my working career the summer after high school graduation (and freshman Christmas break) for a temporary cleaning company that cleaned the offices at Digital Equipment in Burlington, VT during second shift.  The summer after my freshman year of college, Robin and I both got a full-time first shift job at the UV Medical Center cleaning.  I also had a part-time second shift job at a convenience/gas station in South Burlington working second shifts as scheduled.  After a few weeks, I transferred to a service station down the road for a regular second shift job.   The summers after my sophomore and junior years, I worked at UV Medical Center as a window washer first shift.  The summer after my senior year, I worked delivering pizzas for Domino's second shift then headed to UV Medical center to clean common areas and do floors third shift.  I worked most of my winter breaks after my freshman year at UV Medical Center in various cleaning capacities.

At Pensacola Christian College, I was on the work/loan program working up to 20 hours a week.  My freshman year I cleaned the Commons before it opened for the day.  My sophomore year, I was assigned to clean the gymnasium and locker rooms after it closed for the evening.  I also did special floor stripping projects throughout campus after 11 o'clock in the evening.  I picked up two odd jobs that year of filling the soda machines in the men's dormitories and washing the nursing vans.    I kept all these jobs until I graduated.  For graduate school, I worked as an assistant in the second period of freshman History of Civilization, then head to dish washing at the elementary school.  I worked occasionally at the library as well.

After graduation, I was hired as the sixth grade teacher at First Baptist Christian Academy.  During my second year, we were without a principle so I helped out in that capacity along with teaching sixth grade.  The third year, I accepted the principle job but still spent many of the remaining seven years teaching close to a full schedule.  Also spent the good portion of one year doing janitorial on top of everything else. 

After ten years in education, I called it quits and took a job at WIHS, Middletown as board operator working third shift doing news, weather, songs, and programming.  After ten years, I was moved to first shift doing the same things.