My first ever real job was as a data entry operator, when I was about 19. By this time I'd worked with Windows 95, 98, 3.11, NT 4, and had been using Linux excl

My first ever real job was as a data entry operator, when I was about 19. By this time I'd worked with Windows 95, 98, 3.11, NT 4, and had been using Linux exclusively on the home PC ~ 2 years. Whenever one of us made a mistake in data entry, a supervisor would come over to the terminal (running PC-DOS), unlock some admin functionality with a password, and fix the error. Even at 1-2 mistakes per day, this was a hassle for me. Got around it by using a keylogger (remember TSRs?) to capture the password :) When the time came to quit, one of the supervisors had recognized that I knew my way around computers. But I'd royally pissed off another supervisor by then, by doing 'attrib +r +h my-data-file' one day. They couldn't extract the data while I was out for lunch :o)