I did pasteup as a part-time job during high school at a rather behind-the-times paper in the mid 1990s. It was actually a lot of fun -- e.g. flowing a story from one column to another by loosely folding it into thirds then slicing it up.

Less fun was that they also did not have an insert machine, which meant I got rounded up after a printing to manually stuff a bunch of advertising into section C, then put section C into B, then that into A. Ugh.