毕业后，他先在加利福尼亚标准石油公司就职，而后在他父母的农场中途停留，打算之后前往马萨诸塞州剑桥市攻读麻省理工学院的研究生学位。
After working for Standard Oil in California, he stopped by his parents’ farm on his way to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he planned to pursue graduate studies at MIT.