Top 25 Odd Jobs Quotes

Everyone is living for everyone else now. They’re doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don’t get all that social media stuff, I’ve always got other things I want to do – odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields’ Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

I didn’t really do any acting until I was about 28. I just did odd jobs.

Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he’d come home late at night with lumber, and he’d rumble around with all this wood in our small place. We’d finish putting it away, and then we’d play that piano. I’ll be eternally grateful to him.

College didn’t stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I’ve always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who was a songwriter, which I didn’t realize was a real job.

I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.

I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.

My father did not have a lot of security in his life. He did odd jobs. He had a real struggle to make money. He lost a lot of time in his 20s, after the war, because he was sent to a forced-labour camp in Siberia.

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don’t really tell the kids that it’s okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

I supported myself by delivering the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn’t make a living doing it. You don’t have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn’t want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

I fled my home town and did odd jobs, including things like re-designing old furniture, before I became an actor. Having said that, I don’t think the story of my life is in any way remarkable. What is remarkable is how acting opportunities have come my way.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

I’ve had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there’s not a fire anymore.

Being a hungry artist, you don’t have the luxury of buying whatever you want. There were years of me doing a lot of odd jobs, this and that just to make ends meet.

When I was studying in London, I worked part-time as a waitress. I was teaching drama to kids. I did a lot of odd jobs to pay for my studies.

I dropped out of school at 17 ’cause all I wanted to do was play music. I had odd jobs on the side of gigging until I turned 22, when I was lucky to start doing this full time.

My dad woke up at 5:30 every morning – every single day – and drove an hour-and-a-half to work. My mom was constantly working odd jobs, whether it was at Sizzler or babysitting. I didn’t realize how hard they worked. Most kids rarely do. But they were building something for us.

I moved to New York in 2003, I was a very young 22-year-old, so I just kind of started finding my way as a human and was working odd jobs here and there.

I eventually moved to New York with just a couple unpaid internships. Meeting people and going to go the Upright Citizens Brigade, I was able to get a lot of connections, find some odd jobs, and be taken more seriously.

I’ve done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy – girl – when I was younger and sold things at little fairs when I was younger. I mostly related the role to being a waitress and having to deal with customers. There are good people and some not-so-good people.

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

I was born in Mumbai. We stayed in a joint family. But in 1994, my father had to shift to Pune for business. I started working at a very early stage. Immediately after my SSC board examination, I took up odd jobs in shops, as I wanted to contribute to my family.

I’d be doing all sorts of odd jobs and traveling the world. Let alone if I wasn’t an actress, even now if my films stop doing well and people stop liking me, I’d go do odd jobs, like a waitress or something like that and save just about enough to see the world.

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker’s apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.