50 in 50: What is the most memorable job you've held?

I'm quite young so I haven't held many jobs. I would say my first job was quite memorable, specifically because it gave me a lot of time to think. It was an essentially solitary job where I took destapled old paper documents and then scanned them in for archiving.

I enjoyed it just because I could spend the whole time thinking. It was around that time I was incredibly depressed, coming out of sixth form, and it was pleasant to be able to spend the time thinking about things. Actually, it was around that time that I started journalling: I would often take notes, etc. on my phone, and realised one day, when my mum sent me a photo of myself at around ten, that I didn't really know what kind of person I was around that age. As a result, I started keeping a diary to have something to look back on, when I am older.

I wish I still had that job. Of course, the pay was low, and it was unskilled labour, and didn't really teach me anything. It was just nice to have eight hours to myself, a fairly menial task, and the time to mull things over. Work today for me is more laborious, more psychically taxing.