Your first job
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
virang_21 wrote:
What was your first job ever ?
Starting in the second half of Year 9 I worked at a chicken farm picking up eggs every Sunday and I took every Public Holiday available. This was back in the days of Double Time for Sundays and Double Time and a Half for Public Holidays. It was a shitty stinking job that was a killer inside the tin sheds on those 40+ degree celsius summer days, but it paid better than anything else I had access to. I still remember my record of 16,620 egss in 4.5 hours oner Sunday while in Yearr 11.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
I actually had the opposite experience. My first job was to remake a portion of my college's website (was part of federal work-study). Later, over a summer, I applied to be a hotel room attendant for some place at the Grand Canyon, but never heard back from them. I ended up getting a job doing QA... I'm sure I would have preferred the Grand Canyon job.
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I actually had the opposite experience. My first job was to remake a portion of my college's website (was part of federal work-study). Later, over a summer, I applied to be a hotel room attendant for some place at the Grand Canyon, but never heard back from them. I ended up getting a job doing QA... I'm sure I would have preferred the Grand Canyon job.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
a job doing QA
I would have preferred jumping into the Grand Canyon...
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virang_21 wrote:
What was your first job ever ?
Starting in the second half of Year 9 I worked at a chicken farm picking up eggs every Sunday and I took every Public Holiday available. This was back in the days of Double Time for Sundays and Double Time and a Half for Public Holidays. It was a shitty stinking job that was a killer inside the tin sheds on those 40+ degree celsius summer days, but it paid better than anything else I had access to. I still remember my record of 16,620 egss in 4.5 hours oner Sunday while in Yearr 11.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
As a kid me and my brother used to go to near by village to sell buttermilk but that money only paid for our chocolates on the way back... :) .. parents never complained about it ...
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Delivering advertisements door to door when I was 12 was my first regular paying job. Later I got a newspaper route when I was 14. After high school I worked as a janitor, truck driver, welder's helper and surveyor and later stocking compressor parts in a warehouse. At the university I worked as a grader and tutor, then later as a research assistant doing programming. In the summers I worked in the oil field as a roustabout, an engineering assistant and maintenance in a gas plant. After graduating I went to work as a petroleum engineer. Later I started a software business, then turned to engineering consulting. I spent 12 years working on oil field studies in Venezuela, then got bored and went back to consulting. Now I'm back at the university and working as a graduate research assistant, as well as doing my own consulting.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
my first job was part time janitor at a Salvation Army. i was under age, and was paid under the table.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
My very first job was visiting each apartment in a 3-building block to read hot water meters and compile a report. I was still in high school. I did that a few times. Then in the last 2 years of university I started doing some programming work.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Newspaper delivery. That was when I was 11 or 12.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Paper round - early mornings, deliver the newspapers before school. Hard work for pretty rubbish money. I stuck it for a year or two, I think, then I got a job in a Bra shop at the age of twelve. Oh boy! :omg: It was an education in so many ways... :-D
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Paper round - early mornings, deliver the newspapers before school. Hard work for pretty rubbish money. I stuck it for a year or two, I think, then I got a job in a Bra shop at the age of twelve. Oh boy! :omg: It was an education in so many ways... :-D
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Like a lot of youngsters mine was a paper round, earning crap pennies for long rounds. In SA, a friend of my dad specialised in snakes at Wits University. He gave me R5 one day a month to go out into the veldt looking for any evidence of snakes and collecting shed skin fragments and making (at a very safe distance) written descriptions of any living ones that me and my boet found. In a couple of years we only collected a handful of skins, saw fewer still snakes (a few rinkals and one suspected (later disproved) green mamba) but it was great fun.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
First proper job was at 18 between school and university working for HM Customs & Excise at Birmingham Airport Cargo Terminal in the Entry Processing Unit with all the weirdos HMC&M deemed unfit for public contact. My dad got me the job as he worked for HMC&E, and I was to do the filing. It was supposed to take a day and after a week I had cleared the backlog and got it down to around an hour. When I was 16 some mates and I cycled to a local fruit farm one summer and picked fruit for almost no money. Picking gooseberries was hellish. Picking the currents was the best job as they grew higher off the ground and you got paid the highest price for picking the smallest amount. I also spent 2 weeks in a factory making PVCu window frames, loading one of the cutting machines with lengths of the material. Around 2 months as nightwatchman on a half built prison, and around 6 weeks as security at Butlins - both of the last two jobs mostly spent fending off gypsies and pikies.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
My first job involved building web application with GWT. I didn't do it long enough to earn anything (I didn't like it so I quit in less than a month), but at least I started doing something real, not some shit job that highschoolers do so they can buy more beer.
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First proper job was at 18 between school and university working for HM Customs & Excise at Birmingham Airport Cargo Terminal in the Entry Processing Unit with all the weirdos HMC&M deemed unfit for public contact. My dad got me the job as he worked for HMC&E, and I was to do the filing. It was supposed to take a day and after a week I had cleared the backlog and got it down to around an hour. When I was 16 some mates and I cycled to a local fruit farm one summer and picked fruit for almost no money. Picking gooseberries was hellish. Picking the currents was the best job as they grew higher off the ground and you got paid the highest price for picking the smallest amount. I also spent 2 weeks in a factory making PVCu window frames, loading one of the cutting machines with lengths of the material. Around 2 months as nightwatchman on a half built prison, and around 6 weeks as security at Butlins - both of the last two jobs mostly spent fending off gypsies and pikies.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
I can believe that of the gooseberries - those thorns are hellish - but I don't have a problem picking them: Gooseberry sawflies eat everything green in about 4 hours...:sigh: I think I've managed to get about seven berries from two bushes over a period of seven years. And I love goosegogs!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I can believe that of the gooseberries - those thorns are hellish - but I don't have a problem picking them: Gooseberry sawflies eat everything green in about 4 hours...:sigh: I think I've managed to get about seven berries from two bushes over a period of seven years. And I love goosegogs!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
The farmer would walk around with a constantly replenished handful eating some raw and wanging them at anyone messing around. Kids can't earn money that way anymore, fields of full of immigrants. I drive past everyday.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Don't remember exactly my first job, but it involved working in an office, pushing paper aroud, sorting stuff, moving box of papers in and out of storage... and a little bit of "computer" stuff doing layout on one of the first wisiwig software (can't remember the name).
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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During my university study I started earning real money as a office cleaner... that was my first job ever...Then I moved to hotel room attendant then to theme park attendant and finally after finishing university I got my first programming job... and then I started working independently as a consultant for 2 years and now I work for a bigger organization as a software developer ... Thinking back in time I came a long way in 6 years... What was your first job ever ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
My very first job was a Mathematics tutor. I used to teach students who were studying either 12th grade in India and others who were preparing for engineering entrance exams. Those were good days. I could do a lot of maths in mind without need to pen and paper. And this included differentials, integration, limits, probability, trigonometry etc. Today, Windows + R -> calc -> enter is the first thing to do any Math.
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