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Field Supervisor
| United States Census Bureau
This nearly two-year gig as quality-control project manager
for the 2020 quadrennial census began with a 1999 training
trip to Los Angeles (and a week-long stay at the beautiful
Biltmore Hotel), before canvassing Oregon, Idaho and Nevada
through four rigorous operations. The pandemic, too-close-for-comfort
forest fires and a change in presidential administrations
offered a tense background to the hectic, high-pressure Constitution-driven
work – enough to last, well, at least until the 2030
census comes calling ...
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Session
Editor | State of Oregon Legislative Counsel
Challenging, inspiring, intense, grueling: This 21-month contract
in Salem was all that. Some bills were short as a paragraph;
others – tax legislation – could comprise a stack
of paper four feet tall. Pressurized flurries of editing, proofing
and research got spelled by long days of waiting around. Not
to mention that the 2002-03 session stretched into August, becoming
the state's longest ever. Bonus: the daily high from climbing
the capitol's front steps, passing through the soaring rotunda
and stepping into a room full of editors – often seven
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