Event class: worked, career, company, work, working, moved, began, joined, became, school

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Sharin AndersonAfter leaving school in 1976, she worked at gigs and a variety of jobs including waitress at Panton Hill Hotel and running a clothing and gift shop in Northcote.
Jack StevensHe began working at the age of 12 at a cigar factory, before joining the Postmaster-General's Department as a clerk in the electrical engineers' branch in 1915.
Berthold BeitzHe began his career as a banker at the'' Pommersche Bank'' in Stralsund and started to work for Shell Oil Company in Hamburg in 1938.
Olive PercivalIn 1895, she joined the Home Insurance Company as a clerk and remained there for more than thirty years.
Cornelius H. Hanford Completing his mail contract, Hanford followed fanning up to 1869, then went to Walla Walla, and spent three years teaching school, with intervals at farm labor.
Gubby Allen< ref In late 1923, having left Cambridge, Allen took a job in the City (London's financial district) working for the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation as an underwriter.
Branse BurbridgeAt the outbreak of Second World War in September 1939, he was working as an insurance clerk.
Edward Ford (physician)His first job after leaving Clunes Higher Elementary School was as a telegraph boy at the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG), which he joined in April 1917, later working in its accounts branch.
Carlos Castillo-Chavez Castillo-Chavez came to the United States from Mexico in 1974, at the age of 22, and began working at a cheese factory in Wisconsin to support himself.
Mark D. SchwartzAfter earning his J. D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh Law School in 1979, Scwhartz eventually became an investment banker, rising to the position of first vice president of Prudential-Bache Securities's public-finance department in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Andrew Griffiths (politician)Upon finishing his education in 1987, Griffiths joined the family engineering business in the West Midlands, manufacturing plant equipment for the construction industry.
Alun Leach-JonesIn 1951, age 14, he began a three year apprenticeship to the Solicitors Law Stationery Society Limited in Liverpool, where he was employed as a painter of illuminated manuscripts.
Terry KuntzKuntz graduated from college in 1974, with a vocational diploma in mechanical drafting and design, but found it hard to find employment in that field.
Shelim Hussain Around 1991, at the age of 18, Hussain started his business while working evenings as a part-time as a waiter in a restaurant and studying at college for his A Levels at Coleg Glan Hafren.
Stanley Kalms, Baron KalmsHe joined Dixons in 1948 at the age of 16 and over the years grew the company from a one-store family business into Europe's leading specialist electrical retailer.
Ludwig SchunkSubsequent to his training, Schunk was up through April 1, 1903 employed by the firm where he had been an apprentice.
Paul EislerBeing Jewish, antisemitic German-Nationalist organizations prevented him from getting an engineering job in Vienna, so he obtained employment with the English recording technology firm (Gramaphone Company, EMI from March 1931) operating under its His Master's Voice brand in Belgrade.
Robin Sellick The son of a miner, Sellick was born in Broken Hill in outback NSW, Australia, where, as a teenager, he gained a reputation as a'' dog photographer'', taking portraits of people's pets for free, before graduating to wedding portraits after moving to Adelaide in 1988.
Norton SimonAt his father's insistence, in 1925 he enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, but left his pre-law studies within the first six weeks to found a sheet metal distribution company.
Howard Elliott (railroad executive)While his railway career has been spent on western lines, he will find himself perfectly at home in New England, for he received his education at Harvard University, having graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1881 with the degree of civil engineer.
Alexander VologinGraduating from high school in 1940, he became an apprentice lathe operator at an asphalt plant.
A. E. Barit Barit began his career with Hudson in 1910 with the firm's purchasing department, less than six months after the production of the company's first automobile.
Duncan GilliesIn 1852 he arrived in Melbourne and travelled to the goldfields at Ballarat, where he worked first as a miner and later as a businessman and company director.
Peter AbetzPeter Abetz holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Science and, on graduating in 1974, worked as a farm advisory officer in the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture based in Huonville, before running a small state wide rural supplies business.
Gary ForresterAfter graduating from Tuscola High School in 1964, Forrester worked his way through university by farming, life-guarding, and stacking bottles at a Kraft Food plant.
George McNeill (sprinter)In 1963 he left school aged 16 and became an apprentice quantity surveyor.
Isaac AdamsAfterward he learned the trade of cabinet maker, but in 1824 went to Boston and sought work in a machine shop.
Alexander PokryshkinIn 1930, despite his father's protests, he left home and entered a local technical college, where he received a degree in 18 months and worked for six more as a steel worker at a local munitions factory.
George Whitefield ChadwickDropping out of high school in 1871, Chadwick assisted briefly in his father's insurance business.
John HugillBeginning in 1898, he worked for Furness-Withy & Company, Limited, a steamship operator, in Canada and England.
J. B. MaloneHe found employment in a builders' providers firm and an insurance company before joining the Irish Army in 1940.
George SwinburneAfter completing his apprenticeship he became a clerk in the same business (1880 -- 82), and studied engineering in the evening, shorthand and German before beginning work in the morning, and joined a debating society.
John BrashearBeginning in 1861 Brashear worked as a millwright in a rolling steel mill in Pittsburgh.
Zhao ChangqingFrom his graduation until 1998, Zhao worked as a teacher at the Shaanxi Hanzhong Nuclear Industry Factory 813.
Duncan Inglis CameronIn 1951 he progressed to become a qualified assistant with Cooper Bros & Co.
Donald TrumpHe worked for his father's firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son, while attending the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1968 officially joined the company.
William Lyman (inventor)At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to the local company Griswold & Couch, located in Meriden, Connecticut, to learn pewter smithery, and worked there until 1844.
Robert YuillHe received a Commerce degree from the University of Toronto in 1948, and later operated a business forms company for twenty-five years.
Lou BernsteinNeeding to find a way of supporting himself and his wife, he began studying iron drafting and received a diploma on April 14, 1933, from The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York.
Ed BoyceHe worked as a railway construction worker in Wisconsin before moving to Leadville, Colorado, in 1884.
Walter Scott StoryEducated in public schools he began his career in 1895 as an office boy at the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in Springfield.
Alexander Gordon StephenAfter he served an apprenticeship at the Town and Country Bank in Aberdeen, he joined the London office of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in 1882.
William E. BooneHe moved to Chicago as a young man and worked in construction as a carpenter for a railroad company before becoming involved with building design in Minneapolis around 1853.
Albert Henry FullwoodAfter graduation, he migrated to Sydney in 1881 and obtained work at John Sands Limited as a lithographic draughtsman and designer.
Philippe KruchtenIn 1974, Kruchten started working as a FORTRAN programmer in a French computer firm, stationed for three months at IBM in London.
Herbert DreilichThere he completed school in 1961, and worked as a retail store decorator.
Ian SayerEntering the insurance industry in the City of London as a junior clerk in 1962 he changed jobs several times before deciding to work closer to home.
Kathleen FerrierIn August 1926 she left school to start work as a trainee at the GPO telephone exchange in Blackburn.
J. Parnell ThomasFollowing his discharge from the military in 1919, Thomas worked in the investment securities and insurance business in New York City for the next eighteen years.
Robert S. StevensStevens continued to study on his own while working as a clerk at an auction house and a local post office, and he achieved certification as a teacher in 1844.
Joseph Wharton thumb | Wharton, circa 1850 When he was 19, Wharton apprenticed with an accountant for two years and became proficient in business methods and bookkeeping.
Nobby LawtonFollowing the Munich air disaster in 1958, Lawton gave up his job with a local coal merchant to sign professional forms with Manchester United.
Ivan BagramyanGraduating in 1912, Bagramyan, whom everyone affectionately called Vanya, followed his father and his brothers in a path in rail work, attending the three-year railway technical institute located in Tiflis.
Nora Stanton Blatch BarneyAlso in 1909, Nora began working as an engineer for the Radley Steel Construction Company.
Michael Costa (politician)In 1983, Costa joined the NSW Railways and started work as a trainee engineman, but never progressed to a driver, and became active in the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen (AFULE).
Josef BreitenbachHe attended technical high school from 1912 -- 15 and trained as a salesman for an instrument firm and later as a bookkeeper for an insurance firm.
Siegfried Popper Popper spent three years at various engineering works in Prague before joining the Austro-Hungarian Navy on 1 December 1869 as a draughtsman.
Henry Worth Thornton Also in 1894, Thornton began his career in the railroad business, entering as a draftsman of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Stanley HollisIn 1929, he became an apprentice to a Whitby shipping company to learn to be a Navigation Officer.
Mario J. CiampiSo he entered the profession in the old way -- old-fashioned even in 1925 -- by going straight from high school to an apprenticeship in the San Francisco firm of Alexander Cantin and Dodge A. Riedy, who had worked on the great Pacific Telephone Building with Timothy Pfleuger.''
Pierre RabhiIn 1963, after three years working as an agricultural worker, he became a small farmer himself in the Cévennes ardéchoises starting out as a goat farmer with the intention of not following the productivist models he'd seen in the previous years and had been educated to.
Albert H. WigginWiggin graduated from Boston's English High School in 1885 and went on to work for J. B Moors & Company as a runner.
Robert Henry ThurstonThurston was engaged with the business firm of which his father was senior partner until 1861, when he entered the navy as an officer of engineers.
Girard B. HendersonIn 1925, Henderson got his first commercial job as a shipping clerk at the Cheney Silk Company in New York City.
Derek CooperInstead, he became an apprentice civil engineer in 1930, working in Greenwich for the Tilbury Contracting and Dredging Company.
Anne LauvergeonIn 1983 she enrolled in her first vocational course with the Corps de Mines, in the iron and steel industry, at Usinor.
John Henry FischerAfter he graduated from Baltimore City College in 1927, he worked for a year as a clerk for a local seed company.
Dieter RamsSoon after in 1948, he took a break from studying to gain practical experience and conclude his carpentry apprenticeship.
Mike Hall (rugby union)On graduation, Hall had joined Cardiff based commercial property surveyors Cooke & Arkwright, and qualified as a surveyor in 1991.
Arthur MorrisonIn 1879 he began working as an office boy in the Architect's Department of the London School Board.
Leo MacdonellBy 1900, the family had moved to Superior, Wisconsin, where Macdonell's father was employed as a storekeeper, and later in the life insurance business, and as a bookkeeper in a coal office.
Kelly Johnson (engineer)Upon completing his master's degree in 1933, Johnson joined the Lockheed Company as a tool designer at a salary of $ 83 a month.
Marta Andreasen She qualified in 1977 as a certified public accountant in Buenos Aires, then worked for five years as an auditor at Pricewaterhousecoopers.
Robert Noyce After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953, he took his first job as a research engineer at the Philco Corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
H. P. FayeHe started his business career in 1875 as clerk and bookkeeper at a Norwegian paper and pulp factory.
Michael CroftThere followed a period in which he tried various casual jobs -- as a repertory actor in Lancashire, an ARP fire guard messenger, a credit salesman and even a lumberjack -- but he returned to the services in 1943, this time with the navy.
Harvey SwadosFollowing his university graduation in 1940, Swados returned to Buffalo, where he worked as a riveter at defense contractor Bell Aircraft, passed through a brief first marriage and, following his sister, moved to New York City, where he took another factory job at the bustling Brewster Aviation plant in Long Island City, just across the East River from Manhattan.
Alfred William RobinIn 1873, after completing a year of high school, Robin started working for his father and eventually became a partner in the business.
Trammell CrowHe then worked for three years as a Certified Public Accountant before joining the United States Navy in 1940.
Curt NettoAfter the war, in 1871, he obtained a job as a chemist working with enamels at the workshop of Ernst August Geitner.
Claude Grahame-WhiteHe learned to drive in 1895, was apprenticed as an engineer and later started his own motor engineering company.
Willard Lamb Velie In 1890 Velie returned to Moline and began working at Deere & Company as a clerk.
T. Stephen CrawfordUpon graduation from High School in 1918, Crawford began his career following his father by working as a coal miner in Elkins Mine # 4 near Kingwood.
Noel WhitesideAfter leaving university he went into the insurance business and in 1925 was made West End Local Director of the London and Scottish Assurance Company.
Samuel Duncan ParnellHe trained as carpenter's apprentice until 1834, when he took a job at a joinery on Theobald's Road in London.
Paul F. IamsIn 1937, he graduated from Ohio State University and became interested in the pet food business while working with his father, Harry, a grain broker.
Stepan ErziaIn 1892 his family moved to Alatyr ; Stepan became an apprentice of various icon-painting studios.
William Mahone Mahone worked as a teacher at Rappahannock Academy in Caroline County, Virginia, beginning in 1848, but was actively seeking an entry into civil engineering.
Michael Clapham (industrialist) Clapham moved from Cambridge to Bradford where he worked for printer Lund Humphries, and then, in 1938, to the Kynoch Press in Birmingham which was part of the huge ICI conglomerate.
Patrick Stokes After graduating with a MBA from Columbia Business School in 1966, Stokes joined the corporate economics department at Shell Oil Co. in New York.
Thomas Baker (aviator)Graduating from secondary school in 1914, he gained employment as a clerk with the Adelaide branch of the Bank of New South Wales.
Simeon Courtie Courtie left school in 1986, aged 16, and became a City & Guilds qualified mechanical and electrical engineer, completing a 4-year apprenticeship at Timsons, a printing press manufacturer in Kettering.
Hywel WilliamsOn leaving university he started work in 1974 as a trainee childcare social worker in Mid Glamorgan, and then worked as a mental health officer in his home town of Caernarfon.
John PeelOnce this job finished, he took a number of others, including working as a travelling insurance salesman, remaining in the United States until 1967.
Michael MargoliesIn 1982, Margolies landed a job as a clerk on the floor Wall Street's New York Stock Exchange.
Dina CarrollAfter leaving school, she worked in various jobs, including a one-day stint as a chambermaid in a Cambridge hotel in 1985.
Eitan LivniHe went to High School and Trade School in Tel Aviv, and in 1938 he joined the Betar Company at Zikhron Ya'akov, where he was assigned to agricultural work and guard duty.
Frederick MannHe left South Australia and moved to Melbourne in 1887 where he obtained work as a tally clerk.
Richard B. PaddockAfter graduating from Princeton High School in 1876, Richard Paddock briefly studied law with his uncle George Laban Paddock in Chicago, before returning to Princeton to work with his father in the county clerk's office.
Frits LugtEncouraged by his father, he became an art expert at a young age and cut short his formal education in 1901 to become an employee at the auction house of Frederik Muller in Amsterdam.