Entry-Level Jobs Quotes

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

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

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

When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.

For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.

All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

It's funny, I talk to some of my friends and they don't want to to get a job at Starbucks. They don't want to get a job at, wherever, because they feel like it's below them. And I think the only thing that can be below you is to not have a job. Go work until you can get the job that you want to have.

Entry-level jobs are excellent opportunites to educate young women about the realities of the financial world and can prepare them for the next move up within the firm or another area of the financial industry.

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.

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.

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

Young people encounter great challenges at the beginning of their careers.

I think it's important to not have some sort of one-size-fits-all program in Washington, which has downsides, like killing entry-level jobs. But pulling people into the workforce...

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients.

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

When you're at the beginning of your career, there are a lot of, "I don't care about this," jobs that you take because it's about building your resume and building connections. There are so many factors that don't have anything to do with choosing for the material.

When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.