Lady Gaga Quotes

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

I just waited tables three nights a week to cover the bases.

I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

At the start, you don't earn a great deal, so you have to work other jobs if you want to play football. When I was at Doncaster, I couldn't solely do football. I had to work; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to live.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

There were so many times that, as waitresses, you look at your bank account and you literally have 100 bucks, and you're thinking, 'How am I going to pay my utility bill, my rent?' but at the same time thinking, 'How am I going to accomplish my dreams?'

What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.

I did loads of jobs all the way through college, just for a bit of money in my pocket. There were some tough jobs, but I was lucky enough I enjoyed doing them. It was okay.

I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.

Our typical customer is a local guy who needs the money to get by for the week.

I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.

I started work at 13, had three or four part-time jobs, and learnt very quickly the values of work.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd jobs to pay the bills before that. And being in New York for the first year, I got here in 2003, and it was a very exciting but very scary time not knowing how you would make ends meet and me trying to meet people.

Our five-year-old son thinks I ought to work in the local bookshop, and I can see the appeal of that.

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.

I need to work to support myself and my kids. No one pays for my support.

Youth should have access to paid internships or jobs year-round, so they can keep developing important skills and earning income.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.