Basements Quote by Douglas Preston

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

— Paula Fox

I went to school to learn to be a hairdresser. I worked at a wholesale florist, where I delivered to florists all over New…

— Frankie Valli

I was a waitress at a local pub. I was really bad with money and it taught me the value of it as I…

— Francesca Hayward

My coolest job was when I was 12 and I was a dishwasher at the Three Pigs Bar-B-Que for $2.50 an hour. All the…

— Jared Leto

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

— Victoria Pratt

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a…

— Chloe Sevigny

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what…

— Hector Elizondo

As a low-income worker, my take-home pay, at best, was about $200 a week.

— Stephanie Land

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So…

— Willie Nelson

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

— Irene Rosenfeld

I was a waitress for a couple of years when I was 18 and with my first pay packet, I paid for an hour's…

— Davina McCall

My first job was working Saturdays in Sports Soccer in Newcastle. I only used to work three or four hours a week, so it…

— Steph Houghton