My first job with a network was ‘General Hospital,’ and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.
Our first job is to go out there and fight – not to do backflips or have a mustache.
I didn’t grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn’t have random money to buy me a car, and I didn’t have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn’t get a car until I got my first job at 18.
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton’s ‘Planet of the Apes.’ I’m the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that – then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in ‘The Ring.’
Harry Potter was my first job.
I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called ‘Film Culture.’
My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn’t the job. It had to be me.
The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.
I got fired from my first job in a store when I was a student because I kept wearing my own things, and people kept asking me where they were from, and the owner of the store got annoyed with me. So I got fired because I couldn’t afford to buy the clothes from the store.
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
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.
My first job was at Zellers in Belleville! It’s weird that my first job was in a store like this. And 15 years later I’m playing a character on American television who works there.
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I’ve not followed on that through yet… I’ve always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.
My first job was at a local bakery, and when I graduated from high school, I was promoted from retail sales to cake decorator.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
My first job was when I was eight. I did this opera, which was a Robert Wilson/Philip Glass opera, called ‘White Raven.’ That was a very confusing and trippy creation tale, and I was a kid who brought up the sun and rotated the earth. It was very empowering.
My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done – was called ‘Family.’
I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, ‘Where do I want to be?’ but ‘What do I want to learn from this?’ Use that opportunity to be a sponge.
‘The Office’ was such a great first job.
I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
The first job where I actually made money was on ‘Guiding Light,’ the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent – a really bad one, if I remember correctly.
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.
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
The most important thing any person can focus on, whether in a first audition or a first job, is to be the best you can be. The rest will take care of itself.
For many people, the hardest thing about job-seeking is figuring out where to start. All through college, I heard my friends asking themselves, ‘What do I want to do with my life?’ And guess what? After college, and after that first job, people still ask the same question.
Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.
My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.
In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ my first job, which was a complete fluke.
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.
I’ve been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.
Media really excited me. As an undergrad, I majored in radio, television, and film and did internships with CNBC and CNN. My first job was at Sky News in London.
My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.
My first job was with ‘Dawson’s Creek’ where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a wish fulfillment, fantasy-type show.
My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx.
At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
Your first job can set the trajectory for the rest of your career.
My first job was at the Inala Plaza selling jewelry; I’ve seen all sorts of life; I’ve studied overseas; I’ve worked hard in my community; I can sit down with anyone from any sort of background and have a chat; I’m involved in community organizations. How do you measure those things?
Yeah, I started with ‘The Onion,’ that was my first job out of college.
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.
My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
It’s not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to ‘Merlin.’ It was pretty much my first job, and I didn’t know what I was doing for many years on it. It wasn’t until the third and fourth series – the fourth series especially – that I really found my feet with the character, and as an actress.
The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job – that was through Mike Figgis.
My first job was, like, McDonald’s.
So I went and got my first job at 28, trying to think what I am going to do, I’ve never worked for anybody, so I decided to go and write and send my CV off to everyone.
I left school at the age of 16 with no education or income; taking the first job I could get working in a hair salon.
My first job was four words in ‘Family Matters.’ It was huge!
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.
I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn’t a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.
I used to work at Sirius. And when I got my job at Sirius, I was only 21. It was my first job out of college. And when I think back to what 21 was, though, you’re an idiot.
I’m a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that’s my primary responsibility.
I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
I just feel like they’re a network I have a good vibe with, and I’m very grateful. My first job with a network was ‘General Hospital,’ and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well, and they have good, discerning taste.
