Before Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery;…

— Daniel Johnston

I have lived my whole life just outside Youngstown, Ohio. We watched the steel mills close and 50,000 jobs disappear in the late 1970s.…

— Tim Ryan

I had a lot of jobs when I was younger. Where I grew up, there was a lot of agricultural jobs, so I worked…

— Mark Lanegan

I've worked in factories, managed a restaurant and served in the U.S. Army Reserve.

— Mark Robinson

I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.

— Jeff Merkley

I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction,…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting…

— Ben Shahn

I worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods, selling shoes and stuff like that, for a couple of summers.

— Jimmy O. Yang

It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market.…

— Chieh Huang

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

— Roger Ailes

I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.

— KT Tunstall

I was raised to farm work.

— Abraham Lincoln