Ann-Marie Campbell Quotes

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.

I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.

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

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

I enjoyed working at McDonald's.

I think the best thing you can hope for, as you continue on, is to learn so much from every job.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant.

I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?