Career
Ray taught science in Bennington, Vermont for a few years, before returning to Cambridge in 1973, when he and Tom opened a do-it-yourself repair shop, named Hacker's Haven. The shop rented space and equipment to "hackers" trying to fix their own cars, but was not profitable. Nevertheless, the two enjoyed the experience and were invited in 1977 to be part of a panel of automotive experts on Boston's NPR affiliate WBUR. Subsequently, the brothers converted the shop into a standard auto-repair shop named Good News Garage.
In addition to the local radio show, Tom also worked a day or two per week at the Technology Consulting Group, run by a former MIT classmate, in Boston, and still taught at local universities. Tom's belief that college professors make lots of money without working drove him to spend nine years working while getting his doctorate in Marketing from Boston University Graduate School of Management. After being a professor for eight years, he decided that he disliked teaching, and quit.
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