Bruce Rauner Quotes

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

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

Working Holiday' goes out to those earning their pay and a half: from retail employees at the mall and the kids selling popcorn at the movies, to the waiters at Chinese restaurants!

I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In fact, they earn way more than they get.

My first job was, like, McDonald's.

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

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 cleaned toilets and shined shoes.

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

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

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

I've worked as grocery store cashier; I've worked at a bank call center and as a Lady Liberty for Liberty Tax Service dancing around with the sign for a while.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

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

Wal-Mart creates entry level jobs for people who don't have a lot of skills; those jobs don't pay a lot.

After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously reading novels.

I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.

My parents were blue-collar.

I was a bartender, a hot-dog vendor, a cook, sold magazine subscriptions.

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

There was a time when you could make a living by the sweat of your brow. Those days are over!

I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for three years, you know, welder of fabrication, metal 'cause it was a big industrial town, Sheffield. It was much steel and coal and stuff like that.