42 job, job searching, and jobbing (first formal job in USA)
My first formal job in USA was a semi-professional job with a title of "information system analyst" in the Department 95, "Information System Department in the Product Support Devision of McDonnell Aircraft, aka McAir, of MDC, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation ". (2019/2/23 16:48 The reason I call it semi-professional is that at that time there was no professional course series for developing people to serve as system analyst let alone any degree title showing the specialty. There was one book on the subject and a course on system analysis was available for future or existing programmers, in St Louis.) Shortly after I completed the required four-year residency of PHD program, 1981, at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Washington University in St. Louis focusing on Social Work Research, my wife told me that I had spent too much time studying in colleges and I need to get out and get a real job. I agreed and felt sorry for not being productive for too many y...