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If you count summer jobs, I flipped burgers for a while. It wasn't as bad as people make it out to be, although I can see how it would wear on you if you had to make a living off of it.

My first professional job was writing software for time clock systems to keep track of employees' hours and salaries. I spent around four years there and did a lot of interesting stuff -- when I took the job I never expected I would be learning how to build electronics or write Linux kernel drivers.