What was your first job?
wglb: My first job was picking rocks out of the wheat field when I was 11 on our wheat farm.  At 12, I was pretty much doing all the work for the dryland part of the farm.  But being the family farm, that didn't directly pay.After senior year of high school I worked on a wheat farm owned by a friend of my Dad and was paid $1.25/hr.Lots of long days, hours wise.  Carried that into computer profession.However, at the end of the summer, farming was done.  In this business, it is never done and there is no natural downtime.