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My Analog Life looks back at how technology has changed the way we work. 

Lisa Cintron, a retired digital marketing professional and small business owner in Clearwater, Florida, remembers her first job, working as a file clerk in the corporate office of a health spa chain, fondly. 

“It was a lot of fun,” she said. As one of five teenage girls on the file clerk team, Cintron said her days of filing stacks of customer documents were filled with chit-chat and music reverberating from a boombox in the back. “We always had the music on,” she said. “Led Zeppelin, Rush, even Ozzy Osbourne.” But the job also came with hazards (papercuts) and the tedium of a repetitive job. 

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