Joe Cocker Quotes

My first job was, like, McDonald's.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

The best job training is a job – any job.

A guy digging ditches or a plumber wiping joints - it solves problems, you know? You have to dig this hole so wide, so long, so deep. You dig it, and that's it.

I don't think I've had a job since I worked for my father's construction company.

I worked in a coffee shop called Buzz Cafe in Oak Park. I started when I was 14 or 15, washing dishes, and then I became a barista and sometimes waited tables. It was an artsy scene.

I got a job as a coat check girl at a nightclub - this was in my first few months of being in L.A.

I used to work for a spot called the 'Saddle Ranch.'

To help my mother, I started working as a workshop helper. There I learned welding and other tools.

It feels great to know that more people are finding work and gaining the experience, not to mention self-confidence, that they need.

I worked for a Japanese company called K1 for a while.

I have been working since I was 19.

My first job was at a Burger King.

I know how to lay a copper pipe and PVC. And I was forklift certified.

My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I've also taught creative writing, dabbled in reviewing and journalism, and toiled as a screenwriter.

A trade is better then service.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

Work is the province of cattle.

Find a client and get a job.

I've never credited myself with a professional life. But, basically, it has been that.

I keep saying we've got 92 million Americans on the beach. They're not working, and they're all eating, and they're all making phone calls, and they're all watching television. But they're not working. You mean to tell me if you tell them that to keep all that they're going to have to get a job, that that is a detriment to your campaign?