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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
— Victoria Pratt
My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.
— Preston Manning
As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting.
— Stuart Blumberg
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
— Willie Stargell
Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks.
— Hunter Parrish
When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.
— William Styron
The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.
— Lloyd Kaufman
Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job --- not a calling.
— Paul Kalanithi
That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
— Charles Bukowski
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.
— Hayley Atwell
Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
— William Feather
I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
— Jonas Mekas
I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.
— Morgan Freeman
'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
— Hannibal Buress
Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have to know what you are building first.
— Joseph A. Micucci
When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.
— Jessica Stroup
The job of a journalist is to amplify the voices of the marginalized. To do that, you have to hear those voices in the first place.
— Allison Kilkenny
I'd blow someone for a valium," I said in Jacob's ear."Maybe he's got one ... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage. — Jordan Castillo Price
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.
— Blair Underwood
Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
— Bill Vaughan
Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ.
— John Fugelsang
My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.
— Kenneth Langone
My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.
— Melissa Rauch
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
— Peter F. Drucker
Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.
— Sean Maher
At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.
— Vonda Shepard
I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.
— Howard Schultz
When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.
— George Clooney
My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.
— Michelle Obama
Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.
— Brandon Sanderson
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.
— Joel Salatin
The first job of a leader is to define reality."1
— Kara Powell
First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job.""If my simple word is not good, is my oath better? — Robert A. Heinlein
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
— Fitzhugh Dodson
My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.
— Phil LaMarr
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.
— Stephen Hawking
My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
— Janice Dickinson
It must be because I've got a permanent job for the first time in my life,he thought. That's why I can't help hearing all sorts of things.
— Tarjei Vesaas
My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
— Jason Dolley
No one creates a perfect resume on their first try.
— Matthew T. Cross
I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job,
— Gabriela Sabatini
My first job was a McDonald's commercial. It made me want to wake up at 4 A.M. to do something I loved. I haven't been the same since.
— Nadine Velazquez
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
— John Barrowman
My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
— Jaclyn Smith
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.
— Graham Yost
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
— Zooey Deschanel
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
— Irvine Welsh
There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
— Jesse Kellerman
I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.
— Grant Bowler
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
— Alexandre Dumas
My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.
— Sophia Amoruso
My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.
— David Ulevitch
My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
— Clarke Peters
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
— Kelsea Ballerini
'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.
— Joanne Froggatt
I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last ... My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.
— Nicole Malachowski
My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
— Shelley Berman
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.
— Sophie Aldred
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
— Fulton J. Sheen
I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.
— Dennis Crowley
Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.
— Tim Pawlenty
