I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.
People sometimes ask me what I did when I was hired at HAL. The answer is that I was a programmer. And an engineer. And a designer. And I marketed our games. I also ordered food. And I helped clean up. And, it was all great fun.
My parents were immigrants and janitors.
One of my first office jobs was cleaning the windows on brown envelopes.
I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
I started at Nottingham Forest cleaning toilets and scrubbing the shower floors.
I cleaned many a toilet.
I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
I shined shoes; I did windows.
I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.
The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.
I've got keys to crap I've never owned. You put all my keys together I could be a high school janitor tonight.
I started out with three creative jobs - painter, janitor and gag writer.
Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.
In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service.
