Nico Santos Quotes

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

I worked at a school supply store as a cashier.

I did retail. I worked at TJ Maxx before. I did fast food at Shake Shack.

I worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods, selling shoes and stuff like that, for a couple of summers.

I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.

I've never worked behind a cash register before.

I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.

I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.

Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.

When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

Working in a store and being a shop assistant, if you don't know what to do and you like fashion, I think it's a great way of getting into the business because you do windows, cleaning, and everything. That was my school for two years, working in a shop, and that's how I met people in magazines and designers.

I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the action and not really despite myself.

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of jobs, and many of them were in the food service industry.

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

I loved the fact that if you put goods on the floor, you could watch them sell.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

Spending time on the floor is really important. It's great to work out of an office, but working the store gives you contact with the customer.

Honestly, being a store manager was the best job I ever had.

What I've come to find out is it doesn't matter if you're selling a $10,000 gown or toilet paper: The everyday sort of humdrum of customer service and retail is the same.

I got a part-time job as a cashier at Home Depot in North Miami Beach on April 1, 1985. I didn't expect to be in retail all my life, but retail was ingrained in me from my grandmother. I enjoyed interacting with people, and I got opportunities.

In the nicest possible way, my first job was at Sainsbury's - my mum worked there, and I was a bag packer.