Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
When I graduated, I was really lucky because I got hired immediately by CBS as a production assistant.
I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.
My husband is a high-level executive at one of the largest media companies on the planet. He leads a worldwide team of more people than I can keep track of. He worked his way up from an assistant with drive and determination.
I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.
I was in Hiroshima with my assistant, and I said to him, ‘You know, I’ve done close to a thousand shows with Yes. I think I’m done. I don’t think I can do another one.’ I went back to L.A. and left the band and got into film.
Working in a store and being a shop assistant, if you don’t know what to do and you like fashion, I think it’s a great way of getting into the business because you do windows, cleaning, and everything. That was my school for two years, working in a shop, and that’s how I met people in magazines and designers.
I met Iman and Jerry Hall and all those girls in the late Seventies right when I started working at the fashion shows in Paris as an assistant.
I wrote ‘The Assistants’ while I was the Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of ‘Esquire.’
I know that my day wouldn’t be nearly as streamlined or productive if it weren’t for my team – a team that begins with my Executive Assistant.
I had the pleasure of working for Hart Hanson as the writers’ assistant on the Fox show ‘Bones.’ He was always willing to take five minutes in the kitchen and answer questions I had about writing and the business. Looking back now, I realize he might have just been politely waiting for the coffee to brew.
I was a wedding planner’s assistant for years. And I knew I did not want to have a traditional wedding because I had worked a million of them. So my husband and I got married at a sleepaway camp in the Berkshires.
My first real kiss was actually on the set of ‘The Vampire’s Assistant’ with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation!
I’d like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.
I don’t know if you’ve ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it’s a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you’ve got more than one assistant.
When I’m being driven to the reading, my mom doesn’t know who the client is. My assistant, Charlie, does not know who the client is. We follow a lead vehicle… so we don’t know where we’re going.
I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.
When I started as an assistant at ‘SNL,’ I got my eyes on Kristen Wiig and was able to bring her for an audition for Lorne Michaels and the other producers. Turns out, Kristen Wiig can give you some street cred early on.
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa’s crew.
I am working really hard with assistant coaches on both hands, left and right, finishing.
Both parents were teachers. My father became an assistant principal, and he was responsible for discipline at the school. So I didn’t get away with much at home.
I’m very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don’t have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral’s flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.
I’m avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can’t justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can’t do it!
When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.
Rajkumar was the winner of ‘Naalaya Iyakkunar Season 2,’ and I was impressed with his short film. He joined me as an assistant when I started the pre-production work for ‘Vada Chennai.’
I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer’s clubs. Plus I don’t know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files – pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
I started off as an assistant director in Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ayudha Ezhuthu’ and ‘Yuva.’
For 25 years, I was an assistant professor teaching pediatrics, neurology, pathophysiology, and ethics at my alma mater, Eastern Virginia Medical School. It’s been great training for my legislative work – we get in some debates in the classroom that would rival the General Assembly!
I’m on tour all the time, so I stop at thrift shops. The minute we hit a town, I’ll have my assistant Googling thrift stores. I have him go check beforehand; then we go there.
As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
Coach Noll is quite demanding all the time. He expects a lot from both his players and assistant coaches because that is the only way he knows how to get the job done.
I survived in high school by working at Kentucky Fried Chicken and made my way up to assistant manager. I was surviving high school and college with that job.
I got a job right out of drama school as assistant stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic. I’ve been lucky enough to stay in work ever since.
When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.
Well, actually yes, in 1988. There was a warrant for me because my assistant hadn’t paid a ticket of mine.
I had a lot of dealings with Bergkamp. I started with the under-17s at Ajax, and he was the assistant coach. Once or twice a week, we had individual one-to-one training sessions. You just watched Bergkamp. When you see him in training, he had skills that a guy just shouldn’t be allowed to have.
I wouldn’t go down the route of having an assistant. I don’t want to be like that. I want to be normal.
I started out as an assistant to a director on two movies, Miguel Arteta. The movies I worked on were ‘Chuck and Buck’ and ‘The Good Girl.’ I didn’t even know I wanted to be a director until I started working with Miguel.
In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian’s assistant for a couple of summers.
I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the ’70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.
My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called ‘Infinity Factory’ in 1976.
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school – working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
When you’re an assistant, you’re executing the wishes of your boss.
I started my career as an assistant for Wu-Tang Clan, then transitioned into urban marketing.
My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair – and I was her assistant.
I’ve turned down several assistant jobs in the NBA that I just didn’t feel good about. I would love it at UNLV.
I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.
In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.
I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.
When you’re a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother’s assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.
I’ve had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She’s read everything I’ve written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.
I have worked with three female first assistant directors – on ‘Hostiles,’ ‘Gone Girl,’ and a short film, ‘The Human Voice,’ and they have all been exceptional.
I had to get good grades and do well in school – my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher – and they took this very seriously.
