I spent part of the summer between school and uni at home putting together welcome packs for French pagers, the work was pretty tedious, but it kept me out of trouble and I ended up with enough money for a decent pair of speakers and a minidisc deck for my hifi which I took to uni.

My mum found the job in the classified ad's in the local paper, the company was actually a fairly ordinary printing firm but they employed a whole bunch of people that worked from home doing collating work like this.

I get the feeling that nowadays they simply employ someone in a sweatshop in India to do that sort of stuff. I might've thought I was working for peanuts but it's probably a lot more than what they'd get for the same job. Come to think of it, I can't remember whether I was paid cash in hand for the work.