
First Jobs
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The Deep Structure team asked the people they interviewed what their first jobs were.
During the production of the first three seasons of Life in the Heart Land, the Deep Structure team asked the people they interviewed what their first jobs were. The answers ranged from paper delivery and cutting grass to copying floppy disk and counting heads of wheat!
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First Jobs
Clip: Season 3 | 1m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
During the production of the first three seasons of Life in the Heart Land, the Deep Structure team asked the people they interviewed what their first jobs were. The answers ranged from paper delivery and cutting grass to copying floppy disk and counting heads of wheat!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>>What was the very first job you guys ever had in your life?
>>I sold shoes, retail.
>>First job I ever had in my life.
That's interesting.
>>Stringing tennis rackets.
>>I worked at a snow cone place called the Snowball Shop.
>>Way back, I think I mowed lawns.
>>Sitting in an office copying floppy disks all day long.
(chuckling) >>Oh my God.
>>At 16, I worked at Blockbuster.
>>At a movie theater.
>>A telemarketer, God help me.
>>I sold pumpkins at one point.
>>I was 12 years old.
I had a government job.
(laughing) >>Working at the Food Bonanza.
>>It was awful.
I had to wear a tutu.
>>I worked in the ginseng fields.
Oh, I mowed lawn at a cemetery.
Yeah, that's probably not a very common job.
(laughing) >>Hauling water from the river.
>>I was a pants presser.
>>A switchboard operator, and I started on my 14th birthday.
>>Delivering newspapers.
>>I delivered papers.
>>I had a paper route.
>>Having to pick up the papers, roll 'em up, and throw them on people's door.
>>Selling ads for this newspaper.
>>My parents weren't thrilled that after a four year degree, I was making street signs, but.
>>Working at the Boy Scout camp when I was 14 1/2.
>>I worked as a bricklayer.
>>I counted heads of wheat.
>>I grew up in a rural community, and my father would loan me out to farmers in the spring to muck out their barns.
(participant chuckling) >>I think the only thing really I kinda haven't done is taxi.
I haven't been a taxi driver.
(participant laughing) Might have done everything else.
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