I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.
I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
You'll encounter difficulties at any job, and the best way for me to get through them is via endurance.
Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.
I write a little bit about what it's like to be a female boss in my book [ Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?] and the things I've noticed about that, but by and large, it's just a tough job in general.
She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.
The hardest thing about this industry is not working.
It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.
I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.
Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
I don't know who these people are who think they can just move to L.A. and get a job the next day - that does not happen.
It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around.
There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.
You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes [not]. That's the challenge of the job.
Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.
When I was younger, it was really difficult for me to get acting jobs, because you're a kid and you don't fit in the typical family.
Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony conviction makes finding gainful employment difficult, if not impossible.
There's been times when it has been tough professionally.
Football is very hard, and people see only the nice part of the job.
I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse.
Working in a gun store is hard on your feet and your back.
I worked for a smoothie company, and that was rough. I also sold women's shoes for a very long time. That was super rough.
I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.
Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
