Work History:
  • 1953 – My first ‘job’ was delivering Christmas cards door to door.  My work ethics developed at a young age.

  • 1956 – TV Guide route.  My brothers both had paper routes.  I saw them get up early, wrap a bunch of newspapers, and get paid three cents a copy.  I found out that TV Guide routes paid 7 cents a copy and you could deliver them after school!  It was a no brainer. 

  • 1960 approx. – Mowing lawns.  I charged three dollars a lawn.  I bought an edger when I found out I could edge five or six lawns in the time I mowed one lawn.  I also could charge five dollars for this service.  I did both through elementary and part of Jr. High School.

  • 1962 – Grand Union Supermarket bag boy.  In 1964, I asked for my
      birthday off.  When asked how old I’d be I told my manager                 sixteen.  He about had a heart attack.  He wasn’t supposed to hire           me until I was sixteen.  I guess he never asked…

  • 1963 – Professional Saxophonist and instructor.  I continue in that role.

  • 1966 – United States Air Force Band until 1970

  • 1970 – Wackenhut Security, nights, while I was in college.

  • 1971 – College offered me a job with Shawnee Airlines through a work op program.  In two months they made me Assistant Manager of the station at Miami International Airport.  In 1972 they offered me my own station in Pensacola, FL.  I saw the writing on the wall and declined.  The next month Shawnee went out of business.

  • 1972 – The day Shawnee stopped operation I was hired by Delta Air Lines as a baggage handler, for twice the salary I was making at Shawnee.  My career with Delta took me from Miami, to Burlington, to Bangor, to Portland, ME, to Albany, NY, to Portland, OR, to Cincinnati, OH, where I retired on December 1, 1998.  During that time I was involved with all the Federal and Company training, supervising many employees, developing new airport designs, opening new Delta locations, including Helsinki, Finland.

  • 1993 – 1995 – Radio Board Operator for the AAA Baseball Team in Albany, NY.

  • 1999 – I started my Retirement Hobby Jobs.  First was in car sales.  I did this for ten months.  It was the craziest job I’ve ever had but it gave me enough material to write a book, which I did. 

  • 2000 – Screenwriting became my passion.  To date I have written a
       number of screenplays, one has placed very well in a major                  contest.  I also have a couple producers who want to see                      everything I write.  It is only a matter of time until one sells.

  • 2000 – 2012 – Softball Umpire for adult leagues. 

  • 2000 – In early spring I decided I’d like to work for either a country club or a marina.  Those who knew these professions laughed and said I should have put my applications in around February, that all the jobs would be filled by now.  My response was a bit flippant, but something I believed.  I said, that may be true for others but that doesn’t apply to me.  Within a week I was called by both a marina and a country club.  I chose the country club where I was trained as a greenskeeper.  I continued doing that work right until I moved
      back to Vermont.

  • 2010 – For a brief time I tried selling insurance with Aflac.  It wasn’t my love however.  When I retired I said I would only do things I had fun doing or I would move on.  I moved on from Aflac.
 
2012 -  Out of curiosity I went, at the last minute, to a job fair at Jay                Peak.  When I walked in I was thinking of seeing about their                golf course or maybe driving a snowcat.  There was hardly                    anyone there but one table called me over.  It was the                        waterpark, something I didn’t even realize was on the                          mountain.  The young kid who was selling positions turned out
           to be the GM of the waterpark.  The older guy turned out to                  have grown up in the town next to mine in Miami.  We had a                great talk and I decided to give lifeguarding a try.  It’s a fun job            and I am only called when they need help.  That gives me all                sorts of time to work and play on my ten acres of paradise.

  • 2018 – Vermont State Senator… Oh wait, I’m getting ahead of myself…