[McSwiggins]

What was your first job? Did you like it? How long were you there?

I worked at a print shop running a huge printing presses. It was a 12 hours on 12 hours off for two days and then two days off kind of thing. I was 18 and still in high school but already had a kid, girlfriend and apartment, so I needed money. I'd go in after school at 3 and run presses until 3 am, then go home and sleep, then go to school a few hours later.

I liked it. It was easy for the most part. The presses ran off 500 sheets in minute. The hardest was cleaning up wraps, which is like a paper jam but worse because the paper and ink would be caked on the rollers and we would have to spend forever scraping it off with these metal ink knives. Our arms would hurt pretty bad after because we had to put so much elbow grease in it. We had to get orders printed by a specific time, so it would throw us way off schedule. We would print anything from business flyers to books.