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My first job was in a movie theater. I worked at Cinema 6 in New City, New York. I was an usher. I sold popcorn.
Sebastian Stan
Cinema
Job
First
Sold
City
New
First Job
York
New York
Movie
Theater
Movie Theater
Worked
Popcorn
Usher
My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.
Sophia Amoruso
Job
First
First Job
Artist
Subway
Sandwich
My first job was working Saturdays in Sports Soccer in Newcastle. I only used to work three or four hours a week, so it wasn't a huge amount, but I do remember spending the first pay I got on a new pair of trainers.
Steph Houghton
Work
Sports
Remember
Job
Three
First
Pay
Spending
Only
Week
New
First Job
Hours
Got
Huge
Huge Amount
Trainers
Newcastle
Soccer
Working
Used
Pair
Amount
Four
Saturdays
My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.
Steve Aoki
Time
Job
College
First
Kitchen
First Job
Messenger
Same
Same Time
Place
Bike
Working
Help
Company
My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.
Susan Wojcicki
Technology
Writing
Job
College
First
Few
Startup
Software
Responsible
Magic
Somewhat
Pursue
Weeks
First Job
Content
Accidentally
Educational
Quest
Where
After
Decided
Loving
Working
Company
Found
Career
I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own; you've got you first job. You've got your first apartment. You're living away from your parents. You're just discovering who you are.
Sutton Foster
You
Job
Parents
First
Own
Living
Think
Out
First Job
Got
Discovering
Lot
Trying
Just
Apartment
Your
Figure
Who
Away
When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting.
Suzanne Collins
News
School
Job
Degree
First
Playwriting
Local
Back
Telecommunications
Out
Data
Entry
Had
First Job
Got
Yearbook
Grad
Grad School
Did
Reporter
Stories
Theater
Then
Company
Specialized
NYU
My first job was, like, McDonald's.
Swae Lee
Job
First
Like
First Job
McDonald
The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.
Terri Windling
Best
Nature
Me
Job
First
Think
Spent
First Job
Terms
Learned
Because
Editor
Editorial
Years
Offered
Being
Storyteller
Much
Thing
Assistant
'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I don't even know why - suddenly straight.
Tessa Thompson
Character
Job
First
Hairstyle
Changed
Mars
Some
Through
First Job
Know
Halfway
Veronica
Curly
Straight
Reason
Even
Suddenly
Season
Why
Her
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
Ty Pennington
Art
Construction
School
Job
First
Building
Pay
Way
Through
First Job
Art School
Paid
Bills
My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
Vash Young
Me
Fruit
Job
Girl
First
Seemed
More
Take
Never
Had
First Job
Until
Deal
Doing
Than
Which
Ashamed
Little
Fifteen
Little Girl
Right
Resigned
Assistant
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
Vicky McClure
Walk
Job
First
Practice
Slightly
Take
Had
First Job
Annoying
Up
Just
Where
Which
Stairs
Ever
Peak
Kept
I don't do a lot of strategizing, career-wise. I was approached by Chris and Phil, the guys who did 'The Lego Movie.' They gave me my first job on 'Clone High.' We've been friends forever, and they asked me if I wanted to write something with them.
Will Forte
Me
Job
First
Gave
High
Something
Guys
Write
First Job
Been
Lot
Clone
Friends
Forever
Did
Lego
Movie
Wanted
Them
Asked
Who
Chris
Phil
My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.
Will Hobbs
Home
Fruit
Job
College
Men
First
Nothing
Back
Spent
Out
Directly
Weeks
Picking
Almost
Idaho
Almost Nothing
Alongside
First Job
Mexico
Families
Orchard
Six
Themselves
Dozen
You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
You
Struggle
World
Job
First
Become
Before
Sit
Living
Setting
Other
Back
Way
Out
Kings
Taken
First Job
Because
Makes
Becomes
Go
Queens
Been
Did
Just
Famous
Then
Your
Shown
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
Zooey Deschanel
God
Job
First
Singing
Club
Jazz
Earned
My Friend
Had
Bucks
Like
First Job
Were
Friend
Oh
Oh My God
Ever
'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.
Zuleikha Robinson
Work
Brilliant
Job
First
Thinking
Lone
First Job
Because
Got
Little
Hard
Naturally
Cocky
The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
Zuleikha Robinson
Time
Me
Job
First
Only
Only Time
Through
First Job
Industry
Got
How
Friend
Mike
Helped
Ever
From my early days in modelling to every new commitment, is like a first job for me every time.
Amyra Dastur
Time
Me
Commitment
Job
First
Every
Every Time
New
Days
Like
First Job
Modelling
Early
Early Days
My first job was four words in 'Family Matters.' It was huge!
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Family
Words
Job
First
Matters
First Job
Huge
Four
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