In order to make money he has been a: caddy, busboy, asylum orderly, grape picker, ski bum (dishwasher), food buyer, housepainter, slide filer, prep cook, projectionist, line cook, media buyer, landscaper, waiter, carpenter, glazier, Village Voice intern, pushcart vendor, neon sign installer, usher, camp counselor (Flying Moose Lodge), day laborer, furniture mover, newspaper reporter, arts editor, pornographer, real estate reporter, proofreader, bartender, webmaster, information architect, copyeditor and freelance writer.

Cummings graduated from Columbia's Journalism School in 1996. He plans to write freelance articles about indigeneous life forms on Earth until the space program is hiring again.

For more details, go to my portfolio site, CID.