The Most Unexpected Part Time Job That Paid My Graduate Studies

Her name doesn't matter. Sufficient to say she came from an enormously rich family, and she was a graduate student at the university I attended. She contacted me to install a movie camera in the attic, aimed at the bed in her room. Lighting, a mirror, she had me calibrate the camera so any bedtime activities were recorded. As money was no object the camera I installed was among the best at the time. In those days the film was developed onto 8mm film, and played back on a screen. Remote control was in the future, she paid me to film her in action.

She hung out at college watering holes where she picked up her lovers. I got a call, went over to her house, up into the attic, and filmed her in reckless abandon. I developed the film, which I had taught her to set up on her projector in her viewing room. She watched herself alone, I was on standby if something went wrong with the projecting.

I paid for my graduate studies from the 'job' I had with her. Over the two years I was her film monkey she entertained a couple dozen men, and a half dozen women. Those days we had the film and the negatives. I kept the negatives for many years, and burned them one night in a metal trash can. As to the originals, those were hers and I'm pretty sure she kept them for her viewing.