My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.
I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.
My grandma had a kids' clothing store for over 30 years called Shannon and Company, and my sisters and I used to go and work there in the summers.
I lived in Burma for a couple of summers in the '90s, working with the democratic resistance that had fled to the jungles.
(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.
I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.
My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me.
My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
My family owned a furniture/appliance store near Kingston, Jamaica. I worked there all summer but lived in a very structured environment the rest of the year at an all-girl Catholic boarding school.
I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.
I worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods, selling shoes and stuff like that, for a couple of summers.
I used to work out on an island called Martha's Vineyard. I ran a pizza oven, I caddied, I worked on a fishing boat, and life is very easy out there. It's a vacation lifestyle all the time.
I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!
My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.
