Today's prompt from Shimelle is: Write about your first job and ask your blog readers to share their first job stories too.

Another interesting one for me. In Turkey, it's not common for teenagers to work like it is in the US. So I never had a real paying job until I moved to the US. It all depends what first job means to you. The first time I got paid for doing something was proofreading for the college newspaper. The first "corporate" job I had was for Bell Laboratories my Junior year in college. I was a programmer. And the first "real/fulltime" job I had was as a programmer at Goldman Sachs. Most of my career has been about programming or managing people who are. Now I manage products and not people, but it's still about the code I suppose. I had a brief period where I taught 5th grade which was the most interesting and the most dreadful year of my life.

So I guess, career-wise, my life hasn't been incredibly interesting. But it's also not horribly boring. Something in between. I've almost always been lucky enough to work for reputable companies and with intelligent people. I can't ask for more.

Well I can. But not yet.