My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.
I lived in Burma for a couple of summers in the '90s, working with the democratic resistance that had fled to the jungles.
I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.
My grandma had a kids' clothing store for over 30 years called Shannon and Company, and my sisters and I used to go and work there in the summers.
(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.
My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me.
My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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 fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
My family owned a furniture/appliance store near Kingston, Jamaica. I worked there all summer but lived in a very structured environment the rest of the year at an all-girl Catholic boarding school.
I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.
I worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods, selling shoes and stuff like that, for a couple of summers.
I used to work out on an island called Martha's Vineyard. I ran a pizza oven, I caddied, I worked on a fishing boat, and life is very easy out there. It's a vacation lifestyle all the time.
I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.
