Unpleasant Job Quotes

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.

Oh God, I've done telesales. It doesn't get much lower than that, really. That's the job I enjoyed the least.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange environment. It was hung heavy with oat dust, the place was infested with mice, and everyone who worked there was over 60, and I was 18. It was crazy. Apologies to anyone who works in animal-feed packing industry and loves it.

When I was 17, my mum made me work in a cake factory for three days - I hated it.

I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.

I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.

The Ramones all hate each other, and they did it for decades. I wouldn't be able to do that. That would be like working at the bank or something.

The worst day of writing is still better than the best day of telemarketing.

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.