I've had many "jobs" over the years but my career is my painting (I show but don't sell much). In the mid-sixties I went back to grad school in Arizona and answered an ad for a chainman on a survey crew. Arizona desert in July (110 degrees). One week into the job the head said if anyone stopped by and asked what we were doing not to talk to them. I asked what were we doing? "Claim jumping," he replied. Seems we were jumping copper claims that had not been worked after the original filing. Worked at that one more week then went to work for the Tree Ring Lab at the U. of AZ.