Unskilled Work Quotes

Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A.

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

I'm just a senior ditch digger.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.

There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

Physical labor, manual labor - if you can stay close to those folks, there's always plenty to write about, 'cause their issues are real issues.

My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.

I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.

I shined shoes; I did windows.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn't think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.

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.

I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

My father's father died when he was a teenager, and dad went to work to support his mother and two siblings as a carpenter and as a builder's mule, hauling carts of lumber to construction sites when it was too icy for the mules to climb the hills.

You might be a redneck if your father encourages you to quit school because Larry has an opening on the lube rack.

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.