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Retiree Report Comments: Work

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We would like to know more about the types of employment in which Cornell retirees are engaged. If you would like to share any details or stories about the kind(s) of work you are or have been doing during the past 5 years (or if you retired after May 2014 since retirement from Cornell), please do so here.

Return to Cornell

  • I returned to work in a part-time capacity in the Plant Pathology lab in which I had been employed.
  • I'm still involved in the Astronomy Department helping to design and build toys for astronomers.
  • I continued to work part-time at Cornell in the same Nutrient Management Spear Program position I had before retiring until just recently; I am now just on call. I continue to do occasional substitute teaching with the Ithaca City School District, particularly for world-language teachers.
  • It took three years to find my replacement after I retired. During this time, I worked one week a month supervising the Dermatology Clinic: teaching students, mentoring residents, and doing diagnostic dermatopathology.
  • I am serving as a Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) while the "regular" DGS is on sabbatic.
  • I retired in May 2015. I was asked back to teach one class in the fall of 2015 and 2016.
  • I am a professor emerita and I have directed an honors thesis in my department. I have also held online classes with an undergraduate student during the spring semester, and I am still directing a dissertation at Cornell. (I said "paid" because as an emerita professor I will receive modest research funds during five years.)
  • I taught in the School of Hotel Administration and the Applied Economics and Management Department full- and part-time from my retirement until May 2015 and loved it. I had many children of former students.
  • I am a full-time senior lecturer at Cornell.
  • At first, I was rehired to my full-time teaching job. Since about 1998 (or so), I have taught one or two courses a year—in summer session and/or winter session.
  • I continue to teach one 7-week course a year. And I write brief summaries of faculty research for distribution to practitioners (primarily through an on-campus center).
  • I co-teach CS2110 (Programming and Data Structures) as the lead instructor every semester. This semester: over 600 students. I have also been the editor of a book series since 1973 (publisher: Springer Verlag).
  • I have been teaching an Indian language, Kannada, and culture of Karnataka for the past three years in the spring semester as a 1-credit course. I retired as a scientist in Chemical Ecology.
  • I came back to Cornell for 18 months on a grant-funded position at Mann Library. I developed and teach online leadership and management courses for a California company. I have also worked as an independent management consultant for the past five years.
  • I am—or was formerly—a writer. I retired in 1996, but kept teaching, without pay, for a course called Mind and Memory: An Exploration of Creativity in the Arts & Sciences, in which many of our most eminent scientists, engineers, and artists spoke to a full auditorium about the creative processes their own minds had utilized – in 1997, and, with a co-director, in 1998.
  • For six years following retirement, I worked at the Vet College on a special project called Veritas. I partnered with a colleague to create a blog of interviews and stories of veterinarians and the profession over the years. I also created the website, Enduring Veterinary Legacy, to make interviews of Cornell Vet College alumni available online. Unfortunately, this has not been sustained.
  • I have served as a small-group facilitator in the first and second year curriculum at the College of Veterinary Medicine.
  • I helped with a veterinary student lab twice a year until three years ago. After retiring, I did fill-in work at a home daycare for four years.
  • I work half-time in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology doing computer modelling of environmental systems, as I did full-time prior to retirement.
  • I continued working in the library system in areas related to my previous position.
  • I spent four years—two months of which were for pay from Cornell—in the restructuring and pedagogical renewal of the CASA-Sevilla study abroad program that I co-founded with the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1984. The results are about to be published in a special issue of the journal Learning and Teaching and among the 16 co-authors, half are from Cornell.
  • I went to work for Cornell Tech part-time for several months.
  • I am the University Ombudsman and have agreed to do that for two more years. I have also been the University Marshal but am finishing my term this spring.
  • I returned to my former office at the Johnson School to help with a few activities during peak times. I only work about 40 hours per year.
  • I returned to my office to assist while other staff were on leave.
  • During my first year of retirement, I worked part-time in Day Hall for the Budget Office. After this position, I returned to my old position in Alumni Affairs and Development in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. I have not worked for Cornell since then.
  • I have been providing support of academic administration, particularly related to the university's 150th anniversary, researching and writing about historical activities, and organizing a collection of digital images.
  • I found a temporary part-time position through an ad placed on the CU Retiree email list. It was seasonal (wintertime) part-time work for the College of Engineering. I did this for two winters. It was perfect for me—at this point in my life I'm not interested in high-level, stressful work. The work I did for Engineering was low- to mid-level web-based clerical work, which I could do remotely from home on my own schedule.
  • I have been fortunate enough to continue working using the knowledge and experience of my pre-retirement position in temporary positions. I have been available in assisting as needed when possible to do what I could to help in continuing to serve Cornell, however, on a temporary basis while retired. This seems to have been beneficial to both Cornell and myself. This keeps me connected and allows me to share or mentor with others.
  • I provide administrative assistance in Human Resources for professional staff searches; and I am a student services assistant in the Graduate School.
  • I had a temporary position in the department I retired from—helping with administrative work for someone who was out.
  • I worked two brief stints in offices to help out my former department during staff transition periods.
  • I work on a contract basis for my former employer, Cornell Alumni Magazine (a Cornell-affiliate organization).
  • I returned to my former position as a casual employee, working 19 hours per week. My husband and I also have a small business making hoof blocks for cows.
  • I work every summer, part-time, in the Accounting Service Center at the Vet College.
  • I temporarily returned to my previous department on a 20% basis.
  • When I retired from Cornell, my husband and I moved to Wilmington, NC where our two daughters and their families live. A few months after moving, I was contacted by the director of Capital and Space Planning in the Planning and Budget Office to work in a part-time temporary capacity. It was a 20-hour-a-week position that lasted for around two years. I assisted with developing process documentation for various reports, developing guidelines for various forms of space reporting, and providing research and documentation supporting ownership of various buildings. While working there, the Department of CUAES (Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station) in CALS was looking for someone to help them with updating their annual facilities inventory information. Since I was instrumental in developing the current Facilities Inventory System when I was an active full-time Cornell employee, my director connected us and three years ago I started assisting them with their annual updating. It is a position that I hold for approximately one month at only around 20 hours of work in total. I will be assisting them again this summer.
  • I have been working 12 hours a week (give or take a few hours here and there). I love working with the students—they keep me on my toes and feeling young.
  • I returned to a part-time temporary administrative assistant position after I retired. My position consisted of a lot of the same work I was doing before (courses, faculty support, staff support, etc.) and in the last year I have done more finance. I am retiring completely in July 2019, which will be 44 years for me.
  • I worked temporary part-time (half- to three-quarter time) in a department. Initially it was supposed to be for a semester, but it got extended—I moved to a couple of different positions/units in the department—and I will be there for a little less than two years total. I am leaving the position shortly due to moving away from Ithaca.
  • I am helping with peak-time workloads with the project at Cornell that I retired from. I also work two days a week as a driver for the Finger Lakes Library System (FLLS) picking up and delivering books to and from outlying libraries within the FLLS area.
  • I returned to Cornell Dining six months after retiring.
  • I have continued working at Cornell Health every other Saturday during the school year and am assisting my disabled sister in Cortland one or two days a week. Somehow this seems, together with my own home maintenance projects, to take up most of my free time when not exercising or reading.
  • I did per-diem work at Cornell Health from 2012 until 2017.
  • I worked at the Cornell flu shot clinics until they contracted the work out.
  • I have worked at: Cornell Dining; Cornell Store; and Cornell Warehouse.
  • I worked for Engaged Cornell.
  • I have assisted with taste panel work at Stocking Hall.
  • I am a Spring Field Ornithology leader.
  • I am the announcer for Cornell hockey (men's and women's) and Cornell football. I also worked on a book project for Cornell University Press.
  • I am the "Girl Friday" in the Wrestling Office and also work for the local wrestling club.
  • I work part-time as a public information specialist and visitors' center assistant at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
  • I am a rock climbing instructor with Cornell Outdoor Education. I've started training to become a facilitator with the Cornell Team and Leadership Center.
  • I have been teaching two squash classes in Physical Education weekly, and I also work part-time at the Cornell Golf Course during the season. Since retirement, I have also worked as an assistant manager at the Reis Tennis Center. I worked part-time for MomentumMedia—a company owned by an alumnus, that published three athletic magazines.
  • I have worked in the Pro Shop at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course at Cornell for 24 years! And I continue to do this. I work 12-16 hours a week during the season, April - November.
  • I have worked on special projects with the department I retired from, and also work a grocery store cashier job in Florida.
  • I retired from a New York State position; and now work full-time in Endowed position(s).
  • I worked part-time for six months after my official retirement at the end of May 2015. My last day at Cornell was early December 2015.
  • I continued part-time at Cornell to train my replacement.
  • I worked about ten hours training a staff member who was taking over my responsibilities.
  • I worked training my replacement.
  • I returned to work at Cornell as a part-time casual employee earlier this year, and I could not be happier! I feel part of the campus again! It's nice that casuals are still considered employees.
  • I work as a program coordinator for the Community Learning and Service Partnership program (CLASP) at Cornell. This job demands that you think outside your box and seeks a commitment to lifelong learning, both of which I love.

Other Institutions of Higher Education

  • I have continued to be employed on a university faculty since retiring from Cornell in 1995—full- time for 20 years (1995-2015) and part-time since then.
  • I am a professor of physics at the University of Oxford.
  • I was employed as a visiting faculty member at Obihiro University, Hokkaido, Japan (Sept 11- Dec 18, 2017), where I directed graduate student research.
  • I am currently working on a fixed-term contract as a research professor in chemistry at Cardiff University. This position is largely funded by a research grant, but topped up by the university so that I can be counted as a faculty in the so-called REF evaluation. REF or Research Excellence Framework is a system whereby universities in the United Kingdom are assessed by the government (every five years or so) for their research activities.
  • I was a teacher at several international universities.
  • I taught courses at the College of Charleston.
  • I taught mathematics at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for five years.
  • I teach an upper-level parasitology course with a weekly lab at the local university. It is cross- listed in the Department of Biological Sciences and in two departments in the School of Public Health. I do this in the spring semester each year.
  • I am a law school professor, starting fall 2019, at Cal Northern School of Law.
  • I have been an adjunct faculty at Ithaca College since 2009. I teach media writing in the Park School of Communication.
  • I have been an adjunct faculty member at the local state university. I am currently a part-time professional tutor in business and computer technology at the local community college.
  • I am on the faculty at a land-grant college in another state, which allows me to work from my Ithaca home office.
  • For six and a half years, ending in 2017, I taught at a community college in the English/Theatre department. This was part-time work. Many students had disabilities or PTSD because they came to college after serving in the Army.
  • I serve as adjunct faculty at Syracuse University; and an instructor for eCornell. I held both positions prior to retiring.
  • I am an adjunct (contingency) lecturer at SUNY Cortland.
  • I am a professor at another university; and a director of research for a nonprofit.
  • I am still teaching a course; giving guest lectures; doing some consulting; editing a journal; and traveling/speaking at other universities, mainly outside the U.S.
  • I am consulting and teaching at other universities on leadership and organizational development.
  • I am the president of Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law; and dean emeritus and senior advisor at Fielding Graduate University.
  • I worked at Georgia Tech.
  • I work full-time at Penn State.
  • I do adjunct teaching at a community college.
  • I am an adjunct associate professor (Fitness and Health) at TC3.
  • I work on a selection of Japanese language books for a major private university.
  • I am a small projects manager for the Division of Liberal Arts at St. Andrews University.
  • I am the director of Graduate Studies.
  • I do research at the University of Arizona.
  • I work at a start-up international graduate research university overseas. I serve as Assistant Provost for Programs and Projects; Chief of Staff and Executive Director of President's Office; and Executive Director, International Programs.
  • After retirement, I initially served as a co-lead consultant on a multi-campus project to develop an online career development course for the SUNY System's 64 campuses (although I was in the endowed Engineering College at Cornell) and co-authored the companion e-textbook published in 2016. When the project ended in 2016, I took an eight-month career center marketing position at Gettysburg College—immersing myself in a liberal arts environment after 31 years as director of Engineering Career Services at Cornell. When that ended, I moved to a one-year position in Academic and Career Advising at the College of Southern Maryland, reinventing myself again to perform academic advising in a community college setting. After that, I moved to a newly-created "permanent" position as associate director of Career and Life Design for engineering masters students at Johns Hopkins University, taking me full-circle back to what I did at Cornell. My work at Hopkins is under the direction of a new associate vice-provost who is well acclaimed for reinventing career services at Stanford, and he is implementing in career services an exciting new concept that currently does not exist anywhere in the U.S., which I'm happy to be part of. Hopkins provides an environment similar to Cornell, with the advantages of a larger metropolitan area—and better weather. I'm loving it!
  • I am an executive administrative assistant at another university.
  • I have continued to work as a library professional at two research universities since I retired from Cornell.
  • I temporarily worked at Ithaca College, which for me proved to be a more positive environment than at Cornell. I also held several temporary positions through Manpower.
  • I worked in a similar position at another higher-ed institution.

Research and Presentations

  • I am continuing research work in and on Nepal, including an earthquake reconstruction project in Nepal.
  • I am doing social science research.
  • I am a research associate, mostly National Science Foundation (NSF) grants.
  • I am a co-principle investigator on a USDA-Agriculture and Food Research Initiative research grant.
  • I worked for a short time doing research in the Sultanate of Oman.
  • I am active with a company founded based on research I did at Cornell. I also have a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant that continues in retirement and I did take a small amount of salary. I also review proposals for NIH and other groups.
  • I have continued to participate as a researcher in sponsored research funded by the NIH.
  • I do scientific research in the field of biophysics of macromolecules.
  • I do international development work on agriculture and nutrition.
  • I have been invited to give lectures at science meetings in the USA and internationally.
  • I have been paid to present continuing education lectures on the subject of controlled substances to veterinarians.

Writing, Editing, Publications

  • I do indie publishing.
  • I am editing a special issue of a mathematics journal; editing mathematics; and contributing photos and editing a local church history (for a church to which I have belonged the past 53 years).
  • I did freelance editing work for a Cornell department as an independent contractor. I have also continued to do freelance editing for individual (non-Cornell) clients. I have participated in paid focus groups or other experimental lab studies, which I did before retirement. My paid position in local government was not exactly a "return" to work; it never stopped (I just keep getting re- elected).
  • I served as editor-in-chief of a major scholarly journal.
  • I do editorial work for a monograph series and journals.
  • I take part-time work as a freelance book editor.
  • I am co-editing the introductory physics textbooks my father had written. Lately, these books have been published in English.
  • I am the editor of a major journal. I am a "self-employed" researcher, speaker, and writer (e.g. same as before but without teaching and committees). I am teaching in China.
  • I am writing.
  • I am a freelance writer and do paid presentations—both about bees and beekeeping.
  • I am freelance writing for the university. Since retiring I also completed two yoga teaching certifications.
  • I work in communications, writing, research, and support.
  • I write books; see behavior cases in Buffalo, NY; and testify in legal cases.
  • I have worked as a freelance editor and proofreader, working primarily on a Cornell-based project documenting the work of emeriti professors. I am also a Reiki practitioner with a practice in my home.
  • I continue to maintain textbooks on which I am a co-author. I continue to direct a small software firm that develops statistics and education software.
  • I have done translation work, including a 3-year project with a colleague of a text for the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard.
  • I wrote a book since retiring. It was published last year, and now I'm writing another one.
  • I have been writing novels and short stories.
  • I've written some program notes for concerts and given some lectures about music.

Fine Arts

  • I have a fine art photography business.
  • I am an actively exhibiting artist who taught in the Art Department for 26 years before retiring from Cornell in 1999. I exhibit my art works frequently in Ithaca and other gallery locations regionally and nationally. I also established a fine art printing company in 2002 after my retirement from Cornell. I create fine art prints on canvas and paper for artists, locally and nationally, as well as for people primarily in the Ithaca area who want high-quality fine art printing.
  • I am a ceramic and graphic artist with a studio; and I consulted for NASA on a virtual world youth program related to the one I founded and ran at Cornell.
  • I have a woodworking business, and until very recently, I sold through Handwork in downtown Ithaca. I have resigned from the cooperative, but continue to make Cornell Tower clocks for sale to various departments at Cornell (Campus Store, Athletic Department, Business School, and others). I also make wooden items for individuals
  • I am an artist and a working member of a cooperative art gallery.
  • I do landscape photography and have sold at local wineries, vendor fairs, and the Ithaca Artists Market.
  • I do matting and framing of custom picture frames and prints; and restoring and rebuilding old frames.
  • I do writing and drawing.
  • I am a freelance graphic designer; most of my clients are from Cornell.
  • I LOVE pipe organs! I helped build the Baroque pipe organ at Anabel Taylor Chapel. It was so much fun that I found a person who does that for a living and apprenticed with him. I'm also learning how to do pipe organ maintenance and tuning from him.
  • I work as an unpaid apprentice at a violin shop; work for myself building and restoring violins; and occasionally play music gigs for tens of dollars! I also spin wool from a local sheep farmer into wool yarn for him to use or sell.
  • I continue to make films, most of which have received major media attention (and have added to Cornell's profile). I have worked with Alumni Relations so that when my films play theatrically, alums are invited and attend.
  • I create music for film; teach violin and fiddle lessons privately at my home and by Skype; teach workshops at several fiddle camps each year; and perform occasionally.
  • I am the president of the board of directors for the Statewide Country Music Association. My wife and I volunteer heavily in the organization. I perform at least 68-72 gigs and two dinner shows a year playing in a local Country/Oldies/Rock group.
  • I am a piano player at a restaurant.
  • I have a job as a part-time church musician.

Local Government

  • I have been the mayor of Cayuga Heights since June of 2016. This is a part-time position.
  • I am a town clerk.
  • I am a town clerk/tax collector.
  • I am a deputy town clerk.
  • I worked as a deputy clerk for the Town of Danby until April 2018.
  • I was an election inspector, then an election technician for the County Board of Elections.
  • I work at the Tompkins County Board of Elections from time to time throughout the year.
  • I am an Election Day worker for the Tompkins County Board of Elections.
  • I am an election inspector, and also work in the office of the Board of Elections.
  • I worked at a town office.
  • I was laid off after many years of service. (I was not financially ready to retire, but did so to lock in my health insurance benefits.) Then I went to work for a temp agency and had several jobs until I was hired full-time by the City of Ithaca.

K-12 Education

  • I am a substitute teacher in the elementary grades.
  • I do substitute teaching at the New Roots Charter School. I am also doing my art and have a publisher for my book.
  • I do substitute teaching in public and private elementary schools.
  • I am a substitute teacher at the Montessori School; do transcription work for Ithaca College (at home); and opened my own Airbnb.
  • I do math tutoring for grade school, high school, and college students.
  • I am a school bus driver for three schools systems: Candor Central, Tioga Central, and Spencer- Van Etten.
  • I became a substitute school bus driver. I’m much busier than expected. There is a critical need for bus drivers in Tompkins and surrounding counties. I am a self-employed real estate broker, but have not actually done anything since retirement (in 2016) as my schedule is too full to pursue real estate work.

Health Related Occupations

  • I returned to school and became a registered nurse. I have worked as an emergency room nurse and home infusion nurse.
  • I’m a nurse and work in health care.
  • I do psychotherapy.
  • I am a medical assistant.
  • The Finger Lakes Independence Center is able to pay me (through Medicaid) for eight hours per week for my caregiving work. In a typical week, I work/volunteer another ten hours per week providing care.
  • I worked to cover a maternity leave for a medical office. I also work as a human resource manager for Primary Care Internal Medicine of Ithaca in a 12-month position part-time; currently it's been three years.
  • I work at a local retirement home in the capacity of a transportation person. I take the residents on medical appointments all over the state. We also serve their non-medical needs by taking them twice-a-week by bus to local stores for shopping, as well as to the Kitchen Theater and other special events.
  • I am working as a per-diem transportation specialist at a retirement complex.
  • I work as a home health aide for an Ithaca-based private agency. I also proctor final exams in the spring and fall at the Law School (where I retired from).
  • I am a weight loss coach.

Encore Careers

  • I officially retired from Cornell on January 1, 2017. In September 2017, I became a member of President Trump's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA). My wife and I had moved from Ithaca to Austin, Texas in 2016 where I became a senior research fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas (UT) at Austin. I had agreed to teach a course as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at UT in the fall of 2017 and was preparing my course when I was asked if I was interested in the CEA job. I said yes and moved to Washington, DC and became one of the three members of the CEA. I expect to complete my CEA term and return to Texas sometime in 2019.
  • After retiring from Cornell in 2004, I went to work for my professional association, the MLA (Modern Language Association) in New York City, and retired from the MLA in 2015.
  • In the last five years (and before that), I worked for Healthcare 360, Inc. as their Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer/Executive Vice President. Since September 2018, I've been working for Zenith American Solutions as the IT manager of Application Services. Both jobs allowed me to share the expertise I learned at Cornell during my nearly 40 years in various positions from a computer operator to a CIO at the Johnson Graduate School of Business until I retired in 2009.
  • I worked as an education coordinator at the Wings of Eagles Discovery Center in Horseheads, NY. We took the last year of a five-year grant through USDA, originating at Cornell, and brought it to the Wings of Eagles to improve the education opportunities for the students of the Elmira Central School System.
  • I served as director of the Black Point Historic Estate in Wisconsin for three years. The estate is owned by the state of Wisconsin and open to the public for tours May thru October each year. I managed operation of the house and over 40 volunteers who worked at the house.
  • I work for Pearson out of their Denver, CO office as a manager for their central support office, and work specifically on databases. Pearson provides education software around the globe.
  • I was the CIO at a university and then at a manufacturing company.
  • I work as an information security analyst.
  • I do business analysis and data analysis.
  • I did customer service work for an online business.
  • I am a research and development manager for a cherry beverage company.
  • I am assisting with training evaluation for a U.S. Air Force Family Support program in North Carolina.
  • I work full-time for the International Center for Postgraduate Medical Education in Ithaca.
  • I do library work outside of Cornell.
  • I do legal work.
  • I spent eight years working in a foundation in NYC, then fully retired in Ithaca.
  • I was doing information technology work for a while, then retired from that.
  • Having retired from Cornell at age 56 to move out-of-state, I was able to find part-time employment working in a human resources office of a local credit union. I worked there from 2005 through the end of 2014.
  • I have pastored several churches on a part-time basis since retiring from Cornell.
  • After retiring from Cornell, I began a new career in real estate sales from which I retired three years ago. I also write a monthly column for the Ithaca Journal, and occasionally for the Ithaca Times.
  • I work in real estate.
  • I work in insurance sales and financial planning.
  • I work part-time (26 hours/week) as the office manager at Woodsedge Apartments in Lansing, NY. I also do some landscaping on my own for a couple of clients.
  • I worked for New York State Parks and Historic Preservation at Taughannock Falls State Park. I maintained the park trails, grounds, cabins, and facilities.
  • When I retired in 2008, I took the master gardener training at Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE). A gardening position opened up in Lake George Village, which I did for four years part- time. In 2016, my former administrative position opened up at CCE Warren County, so I returned to work full-time, which is rewarding and exhausting. I love the programs at CCE which help the community.
  • I do home construction/maintenance/repair.
  • I worked as a watercraft steward on Canandaigua Lake for two summers.
  • I am teaching Taoist Tai Chi.
  • I do occasional work as a fireworks shooter.
  • I organized bicycle events in Colorado.
  • I work part-time as a security officer at Cayuga Medical Center.
  • I was a part-time rural delivery carrier substitute for the United States Postal Service.
  • I really went outside of my box. I was an administrative assistant for 35 years at Cornell. Now I work part-time in a cafeteria in a small public school. I am the dishwasher and do some food
  • prep. I enjoy it. It keeps me busy and gives me a little extra money as my husband and I have purchased our dream retirement home with many acres several miles away from Ithaca. My husband has a few more years to work, so we have two houses as he needs to stay close to Ithaca for a short commute to work. We will sell the Ithaca house when he retires, but who knows—I may still be at the cafeteria because I like it!
  • I provide kitchen assistance in taste panel work.
  • I am a church council member and a member of boards of directors or trustees.
  • I served on a corporate board of directors from 2005 to 2015.
  • I do administrative work.
  • I provide hotel, real estate, and educational counseling.
  • I worked at Home Depot for a few months.
  • I work as an associate at PetSmart in Ithaca.
  • I worked part-time at the front desk at Best Western; as a cashier at the Pine Tree Rite Aid; as a tech in the pharmacy at Rite Aid; and I work at athletic-alumni events.
  • I work at Sparrows Wine Legend when needed.
  • I work part-time in my son's liquor store.
  • I work in the tasting room for Hopshire Farm and Brewery one afternoon a week.
  • From retirement in 1999 until 2014, I worked full-time in retail for friends. Since then I’ve been working as a co-manager of a thriving thrift shop that is an ongoing fundraiser for our local youth center (all volunteer).
  • I work as a representative for Nutrition from Youngevity minerals and vitamins.
  • I work delivering cars part-time for a local car dealer.
  • I provide childcare for the child of two Cornell professors. I began when the baby was five months old and he is going to be five years old in June. I met the couple through Cornell alumni friends. This was not planned, but a wonderful experience and I have become part of their Italian family.
  • I have visited the VA hospital, assisted living facility, and worked as a receptionist for part-time wages.

Consulting, Business Ownership, and/or Self-Employment

  • I have done consulting work for lawyers dealing with cases related to my field. I have also been paid by governments of other countries to review research proposals for government grants. Several publishers have hired me to review books in my field. I have also done some design work for commercial firms.
  • I have done legal consulting for the past 35 years and that has continued since retiring from Cornell.
  • I am a self-employed educational consultant.
  • I served as a local human resources consultant to a town (two-month specific project); director of human resources for another town, part-time, 25 hours per week; and investment consultant for private clients, part-time.
  • I do consultancy work in my field.
  • I started my business—1 Step Coaching and Consulting, LLC. I work with leaders and organizations on leadership coaching, emotional intelligence, and team development.
  • I do consulting and speaking engagements.
  • I do part-time consulting; and part-time university teaching.
  • I do consulting with a dairy producer cooperative in Japan.
  • I provide part-time agricultural consulting related to integrated pest management, nutrient management (manure, fertilizer and bio-solids recycling), water quality, etc.
  • I consult with companies producing vaccines for poultry in India and Mexico, and SPF (specific pathogen free) chickens. In addition, I participate as a lecturer in courses for poultry veterinarians.
  • I do consulting and continuing education events concerning veterinary medicine and/or farm management.
  • I am consulting for Plant Breeding, and work with culinary schools.
  • I provide forestry consulting work for forest owners.
  • I served as a consultant on a project in Nigeria for an international development organization.
  • I do consulting on research and outreach/training for state natural resource agency professionals.
  • I serve as consultant or adviser, and am currently advising to a PhD program at the University of Warsaw.
  • I work as a software consultant, both for Cornell and for a multinational corporation.
  • I am a sole proprietor of a media production and consulting business regarding youth with disabilities and their career paths to future employment.
  • I work as a consultant for Accepted—a graduate admissions consulting service based in Los Angeles, CA. I was recruited because of two other former staff members who also work for Accepted. I advise individuals throughout the world who need help with graduate school decision-making and the application process. The company assists those going into medicine, law and any graduate program. I focus on MBAs and Engineers.
  • I am an independent consultant for Grenzebach, Glier & Associates—a consulting firm specializing in fundraising and alumni relations for higher education, health care, and other not- for-profits. I work approximately 50 days per year.
  • I am consulting with other universities.
  • I am a paid translator for our local sheriff's department. I am a paid consultant for the county zoning board.
  • I am a computer consultant working in higher education (with software including Kuali and Longview).
  • I provide .org consulting.
  • I do Workday consulting.
  • I am a museum consultant.
  • I do real estate consulting.
  • I consulted on a project for another institution.
  • I am a visiting faculty, and do consulting.
  • I am a paid member of a corporate board of directors; do paid consultation for a project at Cornell; and do paid consultation for work at other institutions.
  • I worked as a consultant for a very small company owned by a former colleague—full-time at first and now part-time.
  • I do paid consulting to a nonprofit organization.
  • I stopped working full-time (when I retired from an endowed chair at another university) in 1993 and started a half-time professional consulting practice which continues now at a very low level, having closed to new clients in 2005.
  • I founded a consulting enterprise.
  • I do a small amount of consulting.
  • Rarely, I do consulting in content area of my work at Cornell.
  • I work as a consultant.
  • I serve as an over-the-phone-translator for medical, financial, and other support.
  • I offer survey research, data collection, and data analytics services.
  • I want to support farmers who are doing regenerative farming; many of them are great farmers, but have little business sense. I love using my MBA (Cornell) to help them be successful. I volunteer services, sometimes barter, and sometimes accept money for this.
  • I started my own data analytics company.
  • I am the CEO of a start-up scientific company.
  • I am the CEO of a private research company.
  • I have a small company that does translations. I have translated documents and articles for local and distant clients, including a few at Cornell.
  • My main research interest even before Cornell was and continues to be measuring physical properties of minerals believed to make up Earth's interior. I designed my own instruments, and when others asked if I would make one for them, I decided to start my own business. This is my 50th time making them for sale.
  • I formed a not-for-profit company; and served as an interpreter for dairy farmers and their employees.
  • I am an innkeeper with a partner for A Stone's Throw Bed & Breakfast, which is open May through November. I am the Village of Interlaken trustee and water commissioner.
  • I work for ecolocationsound.com.
  • My husband and I own Highland Farms Boarding Kennel and Store.
  • I have four businesses that keep me busy: I own and operate Sea Wolf Fishing Charters on Cayuga Lake and Lake Ontario; I own and operate Cayuga Lake winery cruises and dinner sunset cruises aboard a luxury Tahoe pontoon named the Kyeoogah—the Cayuga Indian name for Cayuga Lake; I’m an executive energy consultant with Ambit Energy; and I'm a senior affiliate for EnvyTV—a streaming service providing over 1500 channels.
  • I co-own and operate Frontenac Point Vineyard-Estate Winery on Route 89 north of Ithaca.
  • I founded a forestry company.
  • As an owner of a farm and forest preserve, I am self-employed.
  • I own and operate a real estate business.
  • I have maintained a part-time sewing business.
  • I own and manage some rental properties in Ithaca, and was doing that before I retired.
  • I maintain an Airbnb apartment.
  • I have an Airbnb.
  • In retirement, I purchased a Wood-Mizer portable sawmill and now mill lumber from logs for family and friends as a hobby. I occasionally do some commercial milling. This hobby, which often has become completely out of control, has resulted in milling well in excess of 100,000 board feet of lumber.
  • I am my two elderly parents' full-time caregiver. I am also building a business with a global wellness company through an app on my phone and computer. Both jobs use the skills I gained in my human resources career at Cornell.
  • I raise shiitake mushrooms and wholesale them to chef-owned restaurants in Ithaca and the Finger Lakes.
  • I am a farmers' market vendor.
  • I grow produce to sell.