Sorry Stella....I never knew this thread existed until I got a nudge from Suzi! Well...my first paid job was as a typist in a Solicitors firm in Dublin when I was 17. I only lasted a day because it was like Scrooges office in A Christmas Carol!! It was literally Dickensian and it scared the living daylights out of me!! I lied to my parents when I got home and told them that the place didn't need me anymore.