White-Collar Job Quotes

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.

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.

My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.