What was your first job?

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What was your first job? How old were you?
 
Ran the edge banding machine for a board cutting shop when I was 17 during school holidays..

Edit: I lie.. I completely forgot about delivering newspapers when I was in grade 8..
 
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Got a job in a cellar cleaning floors and tanks. For the huge sum of R800 a month. Just finished matric, 17 at the time.
 
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First job is casual after school/ uni, where you pay no tax. Or my first proper job at a tax-registered company?
 
Worked as a waiter at Whistle Stop, back in my PMB days. Hated it, lasted only two days.

Thereafter filing/general office lackey at a barely legal cash loan/debt collection/financial administration company. Those were the years.
 
Photo lab technician, making da prints for the people at the pharmacy. Thank f I didn’t continue with that dead end.
Although I did enjoy analog b&w photography experiments in the dark room.
 
1984, started at Mutual & Federal Insurance just after ending my Defence Force stint.
Been in the industry ever since. Was 21yrs old when I started.

Corrected for the glory of the teacher.
 
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Worked weekends and uni holidays replacing the fragrance block things in bathroom air fresheners. I would have been 17. It was a half-day gig.
 
The extended family IT/General Tech guy. Programmed everyone's VCRs and fixed/built computers from early high school. So like 13/14/15?

First official "part time" job, driver and technician for a local PC Shop... I would be back and forth between Mustek, Core, Rectron etc and clients all day.

Then the next 20 years I've been a developer
 
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Those pay days were the weirdest....

Queue for the packet then visit each table in turn as they took chunks of it back. It was surreal.
 
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1976 at AA Mutual Insurance as a short-term insurance underwriting clerk. I earned the princely sum of R180 per month. It was so much that I could not spend it all.
 
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