People & Jobs - 1969-1990, Part 2
I n my last installment (People & Jobs - 1969-1990, Part 1), I was heading back to Ottawa. For sure things are a bit fuzzy, so I'll patch things together as best I can. My life in Ottawa was based around Carleton University. I took a couple of courses at Carleton - English Literature and Intro to Psychology. And I worked there as well. Before actually working in the Residence cafeteria, I'd sneak in through one of the exit doors. Then they got wise to that and posted "guards." So I found other ways to eat cheap. If I remember correctly, if you didn't have a meal plan, it cost seventy-five cents for breakfast, which ran from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. So I'd go in at 10:30, grap a coffee and a pastry, and sip it until 11:30 when lunch started. Lunch was $1.25 but they never chased me (or others) out. I'd have breakfast and lunch for $0.75! The food service at Carleton was provided by Saga Corporation, an American company. Then came a better deal, work in the c...
