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  • V virang_21

    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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    Dario Solera
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    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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    • V virang_21

      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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      Newspaper delivery. That was when I was 11 or 12.

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      • V virang_21

        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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        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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          • V virang_21

            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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            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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            • V virang_21

              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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              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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              • V virang_21

                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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                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[^]

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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

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                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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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

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                    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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                    • V virang_21

                      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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                      Maximilien
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                      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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                      • V virang_21

                        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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                        My first job was as a tractor driver doing ploughing for my dad when I was 16. It was in winter and it was cold. Bitterly cold. In the end helped to pay for a new computer.

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                        • V virang_21

                          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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                          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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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            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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                            OriginalGriff wrote:

                            I got a job in a Bra shop at the age of twelve

                            Wow! Now that's the kind of childhood I dream of. :)

                            "The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]

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                              OriginalGriff wrote:

                              I got a job in a Bra shop at the age of twelve

                              Wow! Now that's the kind of childhood I dream of. :)

                              "The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]

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                              It had the obvious advantages - but the hidden disadvantage that it's the kind of job that creates a lot of jealousy amongst those not bright enough to have thought of it! :-D

                              Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

                              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                              "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                                It had the obvious advantages - but the hidden disadvantage that it's the kind of job that creates a lot of jealousy amongst those not bright enough to have thought of it! :-D

                                Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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                                It's great and you knew it! I envy you. I was freaking teaching those nerdy Math guys. Damn you.

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                                  It's great and you knew it! I envy you. I was freaking teaching those nerdy Math guys. Damn you.

                                  "The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]

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                                  :laugh:

                                  Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

                                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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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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                                    Mehdi Gholam
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                                    Full bodied experience, with fringe benefits I presume.

                                    Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.

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                                    • V virang_21

                                      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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                                      Delivering imported car parts (and picking up some from other importers: Pirelli, BLMC, and Koni mostly). The waiting area at Pirelli had the absolute best chairs in the whole wide world.

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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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                                        I was the CEO of IBM -- but only on Friday nights, down the pub.

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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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                                          Data entry.

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