Your first job
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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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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.
John Nawrocki Chief Technical Advisor Custom Molded Products
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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.
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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 route when I was 10.
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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 programming job was in '89. I became an IBM system 370 FORTRAN programmer and was required to make heavy use of JCL and some JES2. I used to write programs that created my JCL to handle the main programs due to the number of datasets. Those were the good old days! From there it was M$ F77 compiler then onward and updward.
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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.
Selling what we couldn't eat from the family garden at the market - tomatoes, onions, cabbage and so on. IIRC, I started at age ten. My first programming gig was making small programs for lazy or dumb colleagues while in faculty - I charged two bottles of beer per program. It earned me a truckload of beer.
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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 route when I was 12 delivering The Shopping News. Very evil folks who threatened dire consequences (to a child) if you weren't there every day on time, and if anyone complained about missed delivery, of the freaking Shopping News free ad rag. It was child abuse. Job cleaning at a fast-food restaurant when I was 16. Shift supposed to end at 4 AM but they kept me to 6 AM, then fired me. I suspect I was there to fill a one-time hole in their schedule. First "real" job (in college) was programming a ridiculuous posting machine called the Olivetti A5. The A5 looked like a hyperthyroid Selectric typewriter. It had a 4-bit CPU and 1.8K bytes of RAM. You fed it magnetic cards the size of IBM punch cards and having 256 bytes of storage on each. Our company's revenge for this monstrosity was to build a hard disk drive for the A5. You couldn't run an A5 very hard when you had to sit in front of it all day pushing cards through it, but with a BRD disk drive, you could run it flat out 24/7. The average lifespan of an A5 connected to a BRD disk drive was only 9 months, but it came from the factory with a 12 month warranty. Bwah-ha-ha. The A5 had a transmission full of nylon gears and a 1/2 horsepower motor. The typical failure mode was that the gearbox exploded, spewing nylon shrapnel out the paper opening at insane velocity to ricochet around the room. Another brilliant design innovation on the A5 was the keyboard, which produced a 6-bit binary code at the right side of the machine, which activated six solenoids, which pushed six 24-inch-long push rods across the long dimension of the machine's interior, to press six microswitches on the cpu board at the left end of the thing. After that, there were no bad programming jobs.
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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.
High School - Delivered advertising. College - Rented trailers worked as a milk-runner in a dorm cafeteria, picked apples. First job out of college - Greenhouse manager. Next job - Cut and shipped XMAS trees. Next job - Residential Landscaper. Next job - Store Manager. Next job - applications programmer (1984) been doing pretty much the same ever since with various languages and technologies. All with the same employer.
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All of that makes me think of Are You Being Served?
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