Your first job
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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.
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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?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
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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.
SeattleC++ wrote:
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
Sounds like it was designed by Mr. Goldberg[^].
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.
When I was 15 I worked as a maintenance employee in the City Zoo. I lasted two weeks because my friends that worked with only last one week and I was getting boring. When I was 16 I worked as a clerk in a shitty internet coffee shop(two weeks later the owner has to closed it). Job pretty sucks because you could not work if you wasn't a Christian. I wasn't, but my sister was, so I put her as a reference and the owner knew her. When I was 17 I work for a cousin of mine in two business that he owned (a Blankets and Pillow store shop carrying boxes of blankets from the trailer truck to the storage, and a as clerk in his cell phone depot). I did that for all summers vacations from 2003 to 2008 (senior year of high school and the entire major in college). Shitty pay from Sunday to Sunday (almost 24/7). Right after I graduate from college I worked as support for a factory production software. It kind of sucks because the database, and the forms in C# were a mess, and I didn't like the field and topic of the factory. Also the pay was very low. I lasted a year with them. I gained a lot of experience, though. Now I'm working as Android Developer. The company pays the double than the factory and a little bit more than the factory, and I gaining a lot more experience. I'm developing in two languages, and I use at least 3 script language and several home brew tools.
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SeattleC++ wrote:
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
Sounds like it was designed by Mr. Goldberg[^].
Software Zen:
delete this;It might dignify the A5 too much to say that it has been in any sense "designed". Rube Goldberg contraptions are clever in their silly complexity. The A5 was frighteningly dangerous, capriciously over- and under-built, and weirdly useful in spite of it all. A theory I heard at the time was that Olivetti had mechanical engineers for whom the company needed to find work, because laying them off was too expensive and difficult. I was just a college kid at the time, so I can't tell how seriously to take this idea. Wonder why their economy is such a shambles.
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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.
When I was 10 I got a job with a local farmer bringing in the cows for afternoon milking. Used to pushbike about 4km out of town to the farm, get the dogs and bring in the herd, help with the milking then hose out the yard after. Then progressed to a paper route when I was 12 followed by cleaning job at 15. First real full time gig was as a computer engineer (after finishing degree), but didn't start software development until 2000 (when I was 40).
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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.