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First Jobs

Season 3 | 1m 27s

During the production of the first three seasons of Life in the Heart Land, the Deep Structure team asked the people they interviewed what their first jobs were. The answers ranged from paper delivery and cutting grass to copying floppy disk and counting heads of wheat!

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