Cold Quote by Nirmal Purja

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

— Ranulph Fiennes

I worked on anti-submarine warfare for surface ships.

— Peggy Johnson

My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in…

— Ian Rankin

I dedicated my career to really working in under-served communities and really just being in the trenches.

— Aja Brown

I put myself through school working at Sound Warehouse, rebuilding lawn mowers for my uncle, installing security systems in the summer heat. Not fun.

— Greg Vaughan

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a…

— Dennis Washington

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

— Clint Walker

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

— Louis Zamperini

My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots…

— Mark Kurlansky

A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.

— Mike Schultz

I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy…

— James G. Stavridis

I began my career at Teledyne, where I worked on various navigation systems, including Inertial, Doppler radar, and other conventional radio navigation systems.

— Min Kao