On November 20, 2003 I was hired at Marchese Computer Products in Batavia, New York. Originally I was the good-looking person who was seen when you walked through the front doors my initial tasks revolved around answering the phone, taking computers in for service, and performing front-end sales.
My first full week of work netted me $300.00 on November 26. My first month of work provided a cool $1601.00 and a $25.00 Christmas bonus. I was working minimum wage in a computer shop that did everything and I loved every minute of it.
A year later I was migrated to the back end to work on fixing PCs, help administrate the WNYNet.net dial-up ISP, and do general awesomeness. With this responsibility I was allocated a business card to hand out when working with customers.
Fast forward to Friday, May 9, and I get an interesting Facebook Message from Tom. Apparently they were cleaning up the shop and they came across something I’d be very interested in:
One last business card made it 20 years.