What was your very first job?
Submitted by Laurel.

I’m probably a little different than a lot of people in that I’ve never worked in fast food or in retail. My first job was during High School, stuffing envelopes with telephone bills for, well…the company I work at now. How’s that for working up the ladder?

I’d come in 2-3 days a month after school and stuff bills. It was pretty irregular work, which got annoying sometimes since it was hard to guess when I had to work. It was also mind numbingly boring.

At some point, the decision was made that I would be the one who printed the bills as well. And that was a lot more interesting than just stuffing bills, so I was happy with that.

Just before I went to college, they pulled me off that and gave me something a lot more regular to do, which was scanning service orders into a computer so that we could have a record of them that was electronic and not just in the giant filing cabinets. So I did that for about a year and then got frustrated with it. So I sent an e-mail off to the head of the software division of the company since he knew me and knew I was into programming from my days of printing the bills and asked him if he had any part time work for me.

So I transfered out of the billing department into the software where I worked part time for a bit until getting frustrated with school and how much I was really learning there and going full time at my job and part time to school. Which is where I’m at right now.

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