Take yourself and the rest of us down memory lane and tell us what your first job was, or how you earned your first money.
I was 12 or 13. A technically-minded older friend who used to make crystal radio sets used to visit Chor Bazar in Bombay to buy some eqipment on the cheap. Once he took me with him and I saw an old gramophone (His Masters Voice) lying side by side with an old Zenith slide projector. I bought both for 10 rupees. In return for being his assistant for his own projects for the next 3 months, he repaired the two items, made the slide projector almost function into a movie projector and gave me a free 75rpm vinyl record Never on Sunday. Budding entrepreneur that I was, I set up a cinema show with background music and sold entrance to the kids in my lane for 4 annas or 25 naye paise as the coin was just starting to be called. The cinema was an enclosed space covered with a curtain just under the stairs of the building where I lived in Byculla. I made enough to pay an assistant (he worked the projector and the gramophone) and take a new girl to the movie theatre every Sunday matinee. I did this for about a year. I became quite popular with the girls in the hood. In return for spending 4 annas at my dog and pony show, if they looked half good looking, they would get a free movie, taxi ride and an icecream - value three rupees, besides getting the benefit of my company of course. If I lived in America where kids get a chance at work early on, who knows where I might have reached. Roland Francis _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org