My father, who was in the publishing business, would, in the days before word processing, bring home book manuscripts that did not have page numbers on them. These manuscripts needed to be numbered, and that’s where I entered the market, so to speak. My father came up with the idea of paying me to number the manuscript pages.
The rate he set for me was one cent – and that was not one cent per page, but one cent per two pages. Needless to say, this wage was really too low for me, and I wanted to go on strike, but I was only 10 years old.