I want to take the first character of use LEFT on laravel.

Maybe anyone can help me?

This is my controller.

$takegolongan = Pekerjaan::select ('LEFT('golongan_jabatan', 1)')->where('cno', '00001222')->get();

echo $takegolongan;

This is the data that I want to take :

output on the screen (error):

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