#firstsevenjobs is an interesting example of crowdsourcing research
- Dishwasher (^3) (Exeter, Harvard, and a summer job)
- Lifeguard (Local swimming hole)
- Library assistant (^2) (Harvard. One was work and one was a sinecure. I’m still really fast at putting things in alphabetical order.)
- Sci. programmer (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
- IT salesman (IT startup company)
- Business programmer (Xerox. My first taste of a really big company, and I hated it.)
- Energy consultant (DC consulting firm)
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August 10, 2016 at 10:11PM
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I don’t know about crowdfunding research, but I’m very impressed that you were working at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory!
I was a junior junior programmer. Working on an early minicomputer. We had a 5 (?) megabyte hard drive to store the satellite data, and it was the size of a small washing machine.