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I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.
Jake Johnson
Work
Great
You
Man
Old
Joke
Big
Doors
Think
Everybody
Jobs
Bad
Writers
Had
Comedians
Doing
Years
Lot
Close
SNL
Getting
Going
The Doors
Then
Sandwiches
Intern
People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.
Jameela Jamil
Work
Love
Time
People
World
Unhappy
First
Important
Think
Those
Entering
Possible
Jobs
Something
Given
Tend
First Time
How
Doing
Get
Want
Information
Much
Career
The economy, unemployment, the future... Politicians, economists, and journalists are constantly debating these key issues for our country but rarely come to an answer. But behind all this, there is a fairly simple truth: no matter what anybody says, jobs are hard to come by.
Jameela Jamil
Truth
Future
Key
Simple
Matter
Country
Politicians
Our
Says
Jobs
Constantly
Rarely
Simple Truth
Journalists
Economists
Come
Economy
Fairly
Answer
Issues
Debating
Unemployment
Behind
Anybody
Hard
I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.
Jameela Jamil
Experience
School
Took
Jobs
Had
Catch
Sure
Without
Got
Making
Truly
Get
Wanted
Working
Skills
Now
Career
Need
We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.
James Cash Penney
You
Our
Jobs
Only
Goods
Well
Sell
Store
Ordered
Wanted
Cannot
Customers
Your
Serve
Right
Buying
It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
James Coburn
First
Took
Complete
Jobs
Direct
Only
Taking
Because
Were
Really
Acting
Lessons
Whole
Thing
Desire
No party or event is without a reason. This is how we foster new relationships, open doors, and launch new ideas that create business opportunities, investments, and jobs in the U.S. and Spain.
James Costos
Business
Opportunities
Party
Doors
Relationships
Jobs
Launch
Open
Open Doors
Investments
New
Ideas
Without
How
New Ideas
Spain
Create
Business Opportunities
Reason
Foster
Event
Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
James Dyson
Time
You
Job
Power
Enough
Jobs
Over
Quick
Want
Designed
Need
As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.
James E. Faust
Depression
Great
Man
Job
Lost
Young
Great Depression
Hungry
Jobs
Through
Factory
Failed
Hour
Banks
Young Man
Cents
Paid
Fortunate
Many
Lived
Homes
After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.
James G. Stavridis
Time
People
Big
Young
Military
Further
Jobs
My Time
Mentor
Part
Course
Educate
Were
Continue
Years
Officer
Big Part
Senior
Being
Wanted
After
Which
Young People
Transition
Uniform
Navy
I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.
James Gray
Love
Writing
Those
Critical
Jobs
See
No Interest
Directing
Pursuing
Most
Becoming
Making
Whatsoever
Interest
Acting
Film
Two
Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.
James Hansen
Wind
Nice
Sun
Jobs
About
Talking
Green
Just
I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'
James McAvoy
Me
Beard
People
Sometimes
Hair
Pay
Say
Jobs
Wow
Ginger
Between
Until
Shave
Always
Surprised
Quite
Just
Dye
Ask
Grow
I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.
James McAvoy
Character
You
Other
Favorite
Jobs
Liked
Also
Got
Get
Children
Loved
Literature
Which
Really
Play
Playing
Chance
When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.
James McAvoy
Thankful
Grateful
Thought
Year
Gone
Everything
Jobs
One Or Two
Would
Feel
Got
Yeah
Than
Get
Suspected
Much
Acting
Farther
Lucky
Ever
Started
Career
Two
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.
James Mercer
Hope
Jealous
Time
You
Old
Incredible
Worse
Jobs
Some
Seem
Seems
Something
Directors
Writers
Over
Like
Still
Doing
Reverse
Years
Get
Going
Just
Movie
Then
Really
Pop
Reason
Grow
Whose
Careers
When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.
James Nesbitt
Good
Me
School
Example
Pay
Drama
Drama School
Back
Bit
Broke
Jobs
Financially
Trip
Totally
Take
Had
Football
Football Match
For Example
Match
Were
Mates
Lot
Very
Them
Means
Europe
Away
Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.
James Spader
Three
Television
Jobs
Accept
Different
Theater
Them
Working
Film
Actor
The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.
James Surowiecki
Amazing
Listening
Sense
Research
Market
Jobs
Paradox
No Interest
Consumers
Had
He
Steve
Nonetheless
Wanted
Interest
Actually
Career
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
James Surowiecki
Government
Good
Others
Otherwise
Way
Jobs
Kinds
Some
Similar
General
Over
Principle
Effectively
Same
Taxation
Taxed
Should
Compensation
Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.
James Wolfensohn
People
Drive
Poverty
Recognize
Jobs
Most
Essential
Against
Create
Really
Element
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.
Jamie Blackley
Amazing
First
Spring
Musical
Musical Theater
Jobs
London
Yeah
Off
Which
Theater
Awakening
Started
Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.
Jamie Dimon
Work
Time
Needs
You
Business
Affordable Housing
People
Build
Community
Society
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Those
Jobs
Soon
Stuff
Longer
Like
Industry
Around
Housing
Permanently
Affordable
Same
Just
Vibrant
Same Time
Really
Business Community
Pays
Keeps
Business has to have a seat at the table. Infrastructure isn't going to be built properly if business doesn't have a seat at the table. A school is not going to happen if businesses don't work with schools about what kind of jobs they really need.
Jamie Dimon
Work
Business
School
Jobs
Kind
Table
About
Properly
Schools
Built
Going
Happen
Infrastructure
Really
Businesses
Seat
Need
I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.
Jamie Dimon
Life
Change
People
Some People
Seen
Jobs
Some
Guy
Heads
Always
Been
Get
Same
Goes
Bigger
Who
Basically
Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.
Jamie Dimon
People
Those
Jobs
Obama
Never
Know
Steve
Steve Jobs
Graduating
Barack
Barack Obama
Might
Among
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