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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Was Your First Real Job?

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment for today: 1)  It's Labor Day weekend in the USA.  Do you have memories of your first real job?  What and where was it?  What did you learn from it?  How did it affect the rest of your life? Here’s mine: My first real job was working during the summer at my high school library at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, California. Previously, I had done lots of babysitting where I was paid 50 cents per hour. This job paid minimum wage at $1.35 an hour and I received a check from the district office. There were two parts of the job. One, I had to inventory all of the textbooks that were turned in at the end of the year. I checked them for any mars or writing, checked off that the student turned it in, and then put them away. The second part was checking the inventory of the library books. I s...