First Job

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As a grade schooler I did some pet minding for neighbors when they went away on vacation.
Later I refereed soccer games, which paid pretty good for a kid.
When I turned 16 I got a job at a restaurant bussing dishes, then did line cook and filled in the other miscellaneous back of the house jobs.
When I was back from college for break, I did one summer part time volunteering at a research lab, and the next summer they hired me.
Right out of college I did temporary office work while I figured out what I wanted to do with my life, then got a job doing biotech research, which is the field I've been in since.
In the past few years I've transitioned out of the lab to be a scientific technical writer, working on regulatory filings related to getting drug approvals.