is 26 years old, and lives in Denver, Colorado. Her first job was babysitting for the next door neighbors every Saturday morning.

is 51 years old and lives in Cork, Ireland. Her first job was making banana splits.

is about to turn 19, and lives in Los Angeles, California. Her first job was bussing tables in a three-story sushi-lounge-panini-diner in Baltimore.

is 41 by human measure (but a lot older since they are nonhuman). They live in Warrington, Pennsylvania. Their first job was as a lifeguard, learning to write poems at a usually empty pool.

is 31 years old and lives in Ipswich, MA. Her first job was a farm stand cashier.

is 40 years old, and lives in Wilmington, DE. Her first job was as a page in a local library.

is 26 years old and lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Their first job was at a just-okay cafe.

is 37 years old, and lives in Toronto, Canada. Her first job was at McDonalds.

is 52 years old and lives in Los Angeles, California. Her first job was referee for a turtle race.

is 53 years old, and lives in the Bronx, New York. Her first job was as a waitress at a steakhouse in the mall.

is 27 years old, and lives in Brooklyn NY. Her first job was as a bookstore barista.

is 32 years old, and lives in New York. His first job was working in a teacher’s supplies warehouse. 

is 31 years old, and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first job was working the ticket counter and buttering popcorn at a local indie movie theater, miraculously still in business.

is 28 years old and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His first job was as an accountant for a London music venue and cafe.

is 28 years old and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her first job was in a store selling pirated arthouse DVDs.

is 27 years old and lives in Brooklyn, New York. His first job was working as a host at The Friendly Toast.

turns 40 in December of this year, and lives in Tokyo, Japan. His first job was tutoring other kids in school.

is 34 years old and lives in assorted places. Her first job was in public relations. 

has a storage unit in San Francisco, a suitcase in Paris, and another one with her in Chad. Her first job was in a bagel shop at 5am. 

is 34 years old, and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their first job was serving as a figurehead linguist for a brand naming agency.

(1964 – 2019) lived in Istanbul, Turkey. Some of his early jobs included hosting a radio show, dubbing television programs, and projecting films.

is 38 years old and divides his time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Venice, Italy. His first job was posting flyers for creative writing events on a college campus in New Jersey.

is 40 years old, and lives in Tokyo, Japan. Her first job was writing Kaisō-hyōhon (Specimina Algarum), her first collection of haiku.

is 37 years old, and lives in Reading, PA. Her first job was YMCA lifeguard.

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