Born in 1936...did the usual jobs as a youngster...cut grass, shovelled snow, drugstore delivery, Eaton's catalogues one summer, etc...
Left school at the age of 16 (mom worked for $0.50 per hour in a factory) and got a job as an office junior for $25 per 5 day week +Saturday mornings...paid $10 a week room and board...got a $5 raise and my mom raised my room and board to $15...I took a loss with extra taxes...
Company closed and I started working at The Orchard Park Tavern as cashier/barboy...Well !!!...there I was...21 years old...working in a bar with lots of booze...lots of broads...a liquor store just down the street and a racetrack right across the road...What more could a young man wish for ?...(he could wish he was still single)...
At the age of 36 I went back to school and got my grade 12 and then took an accounting course...
My resume looked like rabbit tracks in the snow before then but only two jobs since...
I spent the last of my working years at the CBC as a "bean counter" and retired at the age of 65...
Retirement is by far the best job of them all...