Occupational Mobility Quotes

I've been a paperboy, a short-order cook, a warehouse clerk, and, eventually, a partner at IBM.

This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

The people who give themselves up to manual labor are never promoted to public offices.

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

If you're the cashier at Burger King, of course you make less than the manager or even the CEO. The issue is whether you're stuck being a cashier for the rest of your life.

Some stuntmen become actors, but Hollywood is a caste-oriented society. Most of the time you just don't have the opportunity to get out of your field if you're a grip, an electrician, stuntman, set designer, director or actor.

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.

Half the experimental physicists studied and fully 84 percent of the theoreticians were the sons of professional men, typically engineers, physicians, and teachers …. None of the fathers … were the sons of unskilled laborers.

I am constantly on the move, and if I experience foot discomfort, it makes my job really hard to do.