Wednesday, November 12, 2008

From the bottom

As everyone who wants to have a good position on any big company, I didn't want to start from the bottom. Obviously I wanted to start been at least a Project Manager (why not...? in Google), sit in my super comfortable chair and tell everybody what to do and some times how to do it.

It wasn't like that. Let me tell you, my first job was in a high school, inside a small room making paper photocopies for teachers and students. Fifty cents of a peso (like five cents of a dollar) was the cost for a letter size sheet copy, and my salary was four hundred pesos (like forty dollars) per week; every Friday my manager asked me for the earnings, he use to took my salary from those coins that I had collected through the week and gave them to me.

Nothing related with computers until my second job, Computer Systems Developer in the university where I studied. It is a private school and very expensive, but the money wasn't a problem for me because I got a full scholarship for been an employee, so, thanks to that I could start my carrier, Computer Science Engineering. It was very helpful for me to learn in the school room and practice what I had learned in the office, next building.



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