 During World War II, he worked at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, as a marine pipefitter.After the war, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (1945–46) and then began his thirty-year career at Berkeley, going from Assistant Professor (1946) to Associate Professor (1948) and finally full Professor (1952).While teaching, he worked closely with both undergraduate and graduate students, who helped inspire "A Guide to Field Methods in Archaeology" (1949) and "The Archaeologists at Work" (1959).