Entry-Level Job Quotes

My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.

I started at 'The Post' as an intern in 2000 right after I got out of college.

Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research - even flat-out doing our bosses' work for them.

One of my first office jobs was cleaning the windows on brown envelopes.

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less.

Straight out of college, I worked at the Conservative Party but that was just a couple of years.

I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

I'm still that kid that worked at Subway and Target.

I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy or let me scrub the toilets or something like that. But I couldn't rise to those heights.

My first job at the bakery was jamming doughnuts.

I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

My first job out of college was at PBS as an administrative assistant. I thought I would be on the production side of things.

I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King.

I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.