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title: "Work – How we work began in our childhood"
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slug: "work-how-we-work-began-in-our-childhood"
published_at: "2022-04-18T08:50:43+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-07-18T17:28:38+00:00"
url: "https://techpharmalabs.com/work-how-we-work-began-in-our-childhood/"
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excerpt: "Putting “nurture vs nature” debates aside, HOW we learn and work do start from our childhood."
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Putting “nurture vs nature” debates aside, HOW we learn and work do start from our childhood.

I was called “the supervisor” by my dad’s production team of engineers and operators at his cable manufacturing plant. That was in the 1970s and I was always spending time inside the factory, loving how machines such as lathes produce copper power cables. We lived in a tiny makeshift home conjoining the factory, simple as it was, we kids loved it!

It was from then, in my junior school, even though I was always a creative artist since young, I developed an interest in science and technology. If not for my formative years pretending to be a supervisor on the vast factory plant, I won’t have a latter interest in the late 1970s as a computer programmer, or a budding biochemist and Apple Mac evangelist in the 1980s. When commercial Internet became available in 1990s, naturally I took on Webdev, and subsequently co-developing an email security server appliance, and completing my doctoral research in a UNIX-based business analysis system.

So, allow the young to freely embrace STEM, let them learn by “playing”, encourage them to like and then love science and tech.

*PS – Yea, that is me in front of the now long defunct cable factory.*

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