My first REAL job as an immigrant in America was as a Mail Room Clerk. Temp. Through an Agency. In the mid-90s.



We collect, sort and distribute inbound/outbound mails to/from about 10,000 employees on Campus, twice a day. It was a "tough" job because we're required to stand all

day, except during breaks, even when there's no mail to sort or deliver.



This was just as "The Internet" was starting to become a Thing. Any major magazine/newspaper made it a point to have one or more "Internet" news items on its cover, so you couldn't miss the news that the

"Internet" was going to happen.

As a green-eyed, hungry, young immigrant, this excited me so much that I had no choice but to break protocols and immerse myself in sponging up everything I could about this new Thing. As a mailroom Clerk, I was close to the front row (not onstage)