Initially working as a laborer in Omaha, he had served as a draftsman for that city's 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition.
After entering training programs for languages, engineering, and piloting, all of which were canceled, he served as an orderly, draftsman and artist in noncombat roles.
Kahn worked a string of odd jobs to help support his parents and seven siblings, ultimately landing a position as a draftsman at the office of the architect George D. Mason, despite only having a seventh-grade education.
So he went to work as a draftsman at 15, coloring bus maps.
Eventually, his fine penmanship got him work as a draftsman at an engineering firm owned by a Ukrainian.
My dad worked for the Post Office as a draftsman at the time, but went on to be a welfare officer.
The one who ultimately designed it was Jean's younger brother, Henri, who had first gone to work for the ateliers as a draftsman at age 15.
In 1924 the young Austrian immigrant landed a job as a draftsman at Taliesin, Wright's Wisconsin compound.
He first worked as a machinist and later as a draftsman at the Otis Elevator Company in San Francisco.
After high school, he worked at various jobs including as a draftsman at McDonnell Douglas.
In the years preceding the Great Depression, Fenn's father worked several different jobs, including briefly working as a draftsman at the Fokker Aircraft Company.
