Your first job
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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).
Watched code never compiles.
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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.
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[^]
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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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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 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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:laugh:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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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
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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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 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.
No dogs or cats are in the classroom. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
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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 was the CEO of IBM -- but only on Friday nights, down the pub.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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.
Data entry.
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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.
Last year at school I landed a plum job at Littlewoods, working the suit department. The suits weren't the plum part, suits were a sub-section of the Lingerie for some reason, and at that time Littlewoods had pretty decent ladies' skimpies, even a bridal section. Top moment: a very fit women asking me what I thought she'd look like in some particularly fetching lacies. Worst moment: Being a callow youth, and not realising this was a come-one until much later.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Last year at school I landed a plum job at Littlewoods, working the suit department. The suits weren't the plum part, suits were a sub-section of the Lingerie for some reason, and at that time Littlewoods had pretty decent ladies' skimpies, even a bridal section. Top moment: a very fit women asking me what I thought she'd look like in some particularly fetching lacies. Worst moment: Being a callow youth, and not realising this was a come-one until much later.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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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.
1. Trash can emptier; salary of $0.25 per week, paid by my mother, starting at age 6 2. Newspaper carrier for the Dayton Daily News, age 10-14; I averaged $5.00-$7.00 per week with 15 daily and 90 Sunday customers 3. Page at the Greene Country Library, age 14-17; starting at $2.20 per hour 4. Dishwasher and fry cook for Ponderosa (a steak house) 5. Sandwich maker and dishwasher for Arby's 6. Junior programmer, technical writer, system manager, and general doer of dirty jobs, starting at age 19, during my sophomore year at college. I've worked in a similar capacity ever since.
Software Zen:
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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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1. Trash can emptier; salary of $0.25 per week, paid by my mother, starting at age 6 2. Newspaper carrier for the Dayton Daily News, age 10-14; I averaged $5.00-$7.00 per week with 15 daily and 90 Sunday customers 3. Page at the Greene Country Library, age 14-17; starting at $2.20 per hour 4. Dishwasher and fry cook for Ponderosa (a steak house) 5. Sandwich maker and dishwasher for Arby's 6. Junior programmer, technical writer, system manager, and general doer of dirty jobs, starting at age 19, during my sophomore year at college. I've worked in a similar capacity ever since.
Software Zen:
delete this;Computer operator; RL Polk; IBM 7074. Programmer IBM 1401 autocoder, 7074 autocoder, 360 assembler. Education 3-day IBM assembler coding workshop.
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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 summer job when I was at Uni was Passenger Enumerater, flash title for counting people that got off a train. Read Jules Vern and got paid in the sun!
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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 a dish washing position at a family owned restraint. Unfortunately I wasn't family... Eventually I was laid off instead of one of their own despite the fact that I was actually a hard worker and their own slacked off. Hell I tried to come in to work with strep once and they sent me home. That was the only time I ever missed work. Flash forward 6 years, and here I am. I just landed my first programming job with a startup here in Raleigh. Nothing has ever been more exiting in my life than getting payed for what I love to do.
