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My first year at a community college I was doing work study that was part of my FAFSA. I was late getting in there and I had limited options, one was working in
by johnpowell 7y ago
My first year at a community college I was doing work study that was part of my FAFSA. I was late getting in there and I had limited options, one was working in the cafeteria, the other was working for the very job placement center that was tasked with finding me a work study job.
I got very lucky here. The work study job in the job placement center was turning job listings that were faxed in into html to post on our fresh new website. Nobody at the time new what HTML was.
A few years earlier I had bought a "Learn HTML in 24 hours book" and I made a Tony Hawk Pro Skater webpage that listed all the special moves. I used a lot if iframes and thought it was pretty good. CSS wasn't really a thing back then. iframes and tables got the job done.
But I got the job and they thought they got very lucky. I worked in this back room with a computer and a fax machine. Jobs listings would be faxed in. I would scan them and let the OCR software try, and then I would clean it up and add some <h> and <b> tags and then do my econ homework for the rest of my shift.
But as the digital stuff become more popular they hired another guy to be in the back room with me. Dude was a bit of a creep and a student came in looking for a part time job that would work around her classes. He kept on going on about how hot she was. A few weeks later he was talking about he signed up for a few of the classes the hot girl was taking.
Every single student record was available on our computers. Names, address, phone numbers, class schedule, SSN, FAFSA data. It was madness.
And I was a lowly fax to html guy.