Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

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

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

I, in fact, believe people should work before they even go to school.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a pure academic route?

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

I was working from a very early age.

I've been working since I was five!

I've been working since I'm 9 years old.

I went to work at 11 years old. I became governor. It's not a big deal. Work doesn't hurt anybody. I'm all for not allowing a 12-year-old to work 40 hours. But a 12-year-old working eight to 10 hours a week or a 14-year-old working 12 to 15 hours a week is not bad.

Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.

Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!

You can go to war at 18, so you should be able to make a living at 18, especially if college isn't what you see for yourself.

From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

Everyone deserves the chance to make their own choices. The first step on this pathway is experiencing the working world.