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[Amara Graps]

>We might get people talking about crummy jobs they had
>when they were younger.  Mine was beekeeping.

Hmm. I babysat, then cleaned apartments and boats until I turned 16.
 From age 16 to 18 I flipped burgers at Carl's Jr. (I was a strict
vegetarian then). I started college at age 17. From age 18 to 20, I
worked in a scientific bookstore, first in town and then at my
university. Those were also the years I was a teacher's assistant for
the observational astronomy courses at Saddleback Community College.
At age 20 I volunteered my time at Palomar Observatory to help a woman
look for asteroids, and worked days during the week soldering capacitors
at a fusion research lab at UC Irvine. At age 21 I started working at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Voyager mission project.

(five years to go from hamburgers to space missions)
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Amara Graps, PhD
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI)
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF),
Adjunct Assistant Professor Astronomy, AUR,
Roma, ITALIA     Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it