“I used up eight of my nine lives in that job,” said Ray Charlton, who drove paperwork around Los Angeles in the 1980s.

Technology has allowed Dr. Winnie Lau of Florida to see more patients, but the level of care she’s giving is the same, she says.

“Office jobs involved a lot of paperwork,” recalled Stephanie Sharf, who entered the labor force in 1968.

As one of five teenage girls on the file clerk team, Lisa Cintron said her days were filled with chit-chat and music reverberating from a boombox in the back. 

In the first installment of our series “My Analog Life,” a landscape architect reminisces about drafting by hand.

Your stories about the way you used to work.