I worked for Burger King during High School. Part way through college I did assembly in an underfunded venture to make subliminal suggestion devices to go into stereos at businesses. Did you know that the phrase "mommy and I are one" played under music will make women loose weight? After school I made B4C control pellets for reactors for about 4 years. The NRC shut down all reactors in the area for about two years which effectively shut us down. I spent about 9 months building bearings for SKF until the plant closed and went to Mexico. The next 18 months I did 6 paper routes. I was up at 2am and drove through two neighborhoods, then room to room at a hospital til 10am. The change I made was usually enough to buy me breakfast from the machines on the second floor. I then did the early edition of the afternoon paper downtown on foot going up 24 flights of stairs with a 60 pound bag I covered about 24 miles a day. I did the final driving route and finished about 5pm. I got on with the post office as a substitute carrier for Saturdays and gave up one of the paper routes. About 6 months later I got on at ORNL in fracture mechanics. I was still to low on seniority to get a full time postal route so I stayed on till they could train another sub. I've been at the national lab every since. I did charpy and crack arrest testing on heavy section steel (boilers basically). After it became painfully obvious that we would never build another nuclear reactor again Fracture Mechanics was dissolved and I joined the Ceramic Surface Systems group where I made Silicon Carbide composites. We changed our name to Surface Processing and Mechanics (thats SPAM). I've worked on a bipolar plate that was licensed to porvair for Hydrogen Fuel Cells. I worked with Rick to make the green bullets that nukeboy uses. Every three to five years the programs change. It's always intresting, but the pay sucks. Because I'm not a PhD I get treated like the bishop's bastard.