Vernon L. Smith Quotes

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

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buffet in Tampa that hung a 'Help Wanted' sign outside, so I went in and ended up hosting every Friday and Sunday for $6 or $7 an hour.

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

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

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

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 Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.

I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs.

My first job was, like, McDonald's.

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

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

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

My first job, I was Chuck E. at Chuck E. Cheese's.

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

I enjoyed working at McDonald's.

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 had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.

I survived in high school by working at Kentucky Fried Chicken and made my way up to assistant manager. I was surviving high school and college with that job.

I just waited tables three nights a week to cover the bases.