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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages. -- Damon Wayans
Obviously music is my first job. -- Alesha Dixon
I think I was about nine years old when I got my first job. -- Tyler Hoechlin
At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting. -- Tamsin Egerton
One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card. -- Frankie J. Alvarez
Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me. -- Joanne Froggatt
One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat. -- Margaret Cho
Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990. -- Bob Bergen
I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe. -- Morgan Freeman
One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.' -- Tom Everett Scott
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing. -- Jamie Blackley
I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job. -- Bo Bice
My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel. -- Lily James
I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard. -- Anna Kendrick
Ive been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base. -- David Cunliffe
I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base. -- David Cunliffe
You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto. -- Keanu Reeves
I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics. -- Donna Brazile
I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider. -- David Ulevitch
And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after. -- Piper Perabo
Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it. -- Rami Malek
Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a Gilmore Girls episode, and I thought I was right for it. -- Rami Malek
I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations. -- Hampton Sides
At my first job in the mid-to-late '90s, almost every product was from Microsoft. Everything was designed to work together - Windows for workgroups, shared M drives, etc., etc. -- Stewart Butterfield
I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it. -- Sergio Aragones
Veronica Mars was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I dont even know why - suddenly straight. -- Tessa Thompson
Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I don't even know why - suddenly straight. -- Tessa Thompson
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. -- Douglass North
My first pilot gig, in fact my first job in television, was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life. -- Jake Kasdan
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!' -- Sam Claflin
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show. -- Dick Cavett
I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency. -- Christopher Fowler
I actually think that craft service was the reason I got into acting: the free food. I literally remember on my first job being like, "Yes! I get to have craft service every day!" -- Blake Lively
Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important. -- Geena Davis
In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke. -- Lizzy Caplan
I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test. -- Luke Evans
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one. -- Paul Halmos
I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Mississippi. I was making, like, $2.15 an hour. And I was taught how to responsibly handle those customer interactions. -- Marsha Blackburn
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. -- Will McDonough
I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one. -- Joey Lauren Adams
We have an amazing relationship, and always have. She was so warm and welcoming to me - Veep was my first job out of school. Julia's [ Louis-Dreyfus] and my relationship couldn't be more different from Selina and Catherine's. -- Sarah Sutherland
I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job. -- Gene Hackman
I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you. -- Sydney Pollack
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success. -- Bernard Arnault
My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years. -- Didi Conn
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. -- Eva Longoria
When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence. -- Padmasree Warrior
I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back. -- Daisy Ridley
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. -- Alan Patricof
Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh. -- Laura Mvula
I am still a lover of paper books. One of my first jobs was in a bookstore, and I still like to be able to write in a margin and feel the paper. Once inside of a digital device, I end up losing things. -- Sophia Amoruso
I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends. -- Katie Leclerc
I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up. -- Aaron Patzer
I did this one scene in an episode of 'General Hospital', and that was my first job down in L.A. It was, like, my second audition, and I was like, 'Woo! This is easy! This is fun!' That was a really cool moment for me. -- Bridgit Mendler
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine. -- Therese Fowler
People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. -- Helena Bonham Carter
My first acting job - I used to do commercials, and I had done a couple music videos - but my first job job was 'ATL' with T.I. I auditioned for that, like, five times. I didn't have an agent. And then, from there, my life changed. -- Lauren London
I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler -- Patrick Dempsey
I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler. -- Patrick Dempsey
At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field. -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience. -- Sam Claflin
I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode. -- Seann William Scott
One of my first jobs was in Italy and that's where I saw cocaine for the first time. There was a murder in our group that weekend. I decided then and there that I would never do drugs. I have anxiety attacks, so there's no way I could do them. -- Linda Evangelista
Every job feels like my first. -- Kelly Reilly
My first job was, like, McDonald's. -- Swae Lee
My first job was cleaning sheep pens. -- Brian Sandoval
Rent' was my first professional job, ever. -- Aaron Tveit
My first acting job was a Breck commercial. -- Jaclyn Smith
I was 18 when I got my first TV job. -- Andrea Arnold
I was 18 when I got my first acting job. -- Jaime Winstone
My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway. -- Sophia Amoruso
My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA. -- Robert Lopez
My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.' -- Jason Katims
My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks. -- Hunter Parrish
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. -- Lou Holtz
My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss. -- Jessica Alba
I liked watching myself on TV. My first job was hosting the 'Roommate Game'. -- Dave Annable
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica. -- Willie Stargell
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills. -- Ty Pennington
My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job. -- Graham Yost
You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job. -- Michael Weatherly
My first job, I was Chuck E. at Chuck E. Cheese's. -- Timm Sharp
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware. -- Zig Ziglar
My first job as premier will be to go back to basics. -- Lara Giddings
My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously. -- Venus Williams
My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's. -- Shelley Berman
Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program. -- Alex Trebek
My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? -- Jodi Picoult
My first job was four words in 'Family Matters.' It was huge! -- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor. -- Victoria Pratt
My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner. -- Judd Nelson
My first job at Graham-Newman was to prepare the annual report for that 10th year. -- Walter Schloss
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case. -- George W. Bush
My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs. -- James Iha
My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week. -- Paula Fox
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live. -- Max Brooks
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can. -- Sara Zarr
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.' -- Max Brooks
I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. -- Anna Camp
My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes. -- Douglas Trumbull
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since. -- Rachel Roy
Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. -- Sophie Aldred
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre. -- Sophie Aldred
My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar. -- Melissa Rauch
For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. -- Len Cariou
Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ. -- John Fugelsang
My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes. -- Michelle Obama
At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much. -- Vonda Shepard
My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976. -- Janice Dickinson
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it. -- Elizabeth Strout
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture. -- Gene Luen Yang
My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired. -- Jason Dolley
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky. -- Hayley Atwell
My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood. -- Robert Crais
My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time. -- Barack Obama
My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge. -- Eric Idle
My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work. -- Claire McCaskill
My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman. -- Preston Manning
My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.' -- Brenton Thwaites

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