Small Beginnings

Musings from Dennis #19: My first job in my early 20’s as an apprentice at this Engineering Consultancy firm where I worked at the electrical dept - I was assigned mostly drafting work – using Faber Castell technical ink pens to draw electrical line drawings or plan drawings of building projects on transparency films on a huge A0 sized board. In between that I was called by the company secretary to go deliver documents by hand (when the regular delivery boy was out already) or photostat tender documents (machine had no sorting facility!). We were a small team no more than 20 people so I was really the youngest employee around. I know how to fan-fold photocopy paper (if not the paper will get stuck in the machine) even!. Once I was also asked to drive my boss’ client to the airport with his car (I struggled with this auto car as I was stick-shift trained, and wondered why it was moving! The client got nervous and took a cab instead!). The Bible reminds me not to despise the years of small beginnings and looking bad I was glad I experienced it all. It helps me emphatize with junior team members now as I recall my journey from all those years ago