Jack Vance Quotes

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.

It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.

I was happy working for £6 an hour.

Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.

When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.

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

I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

It's a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn't pay very well.