My father offered me a job as a trainee guide and I went into the bush.
VOA: special.2009.08.19
He likes to tell people how, in his first job as a Mars management trainee, he learnt that the best way of sweeping up Maltesers from the factory floor was first to step on them.
When Verona native Marcello Pigozzo landed his first job, as a night shift trainee at the InterContinental Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, he walked to work a long, uphill slog every evening.
His first job, in 1957, was as a management trainee with ICI, but after five years he joined the BBC in Newcastle on the "Look North" news magazine programme.