Hey now! You're talking about me! (Not really). My first job out of college was as a temp for a marketing group in Boca Raton, FL where I had moved briefly to g

Hey now! You're talking about me! (Not really). My first job out of college was as a temp for a marketing group in Boca Raton, FL where I had moved briefly to get away from New England weather. I was tasked to write "OS/2 Success Stories" which were used to create white papers and other marketing material. This was years before the OS/2 Warp release, which was, I agree, truly abysmally marketed (that logo!!). The only thing I can remember solidly was that Traveller's Insurance used OS/2 and I wrote glowing details of how happy they were with it. But other financial companies come to mind too. Chase maybe? Oh, and that installing OS/2 in the days before CD ROMs required a stack of easily 20 floppy disks or more... You'd pop them in, one after another, listening for a beep to tell you when to switch, for what seemed like hours. Even though it wasn't a technical job per se, I learned to create a little Lotus Notes database to help us keep track of the various companies and more importantly, got my own copies of the rare developer manuals which were only available to licensees of Notes. Between that small bit of knowledge and IBM on my resume (a very big deal even in the early 90s), I was able to bald-face my way into getting a programming job and starting my career.