Building Quote by Sean Lock

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

— Ryan Lewis

Our family had some economic hardship when I was younger. I got my first job when I was 9.

— Scott Bessent

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

— Curt Schilling

“Less apparent at the time, but in many ways more problematic, were deep-seated structural developments in the work force. By the late 1960s millions…

— James T. Patterson

I had to let go of many things because we did not have much money growing up. Like joining the Film Institute in Pune…

— Farah Khan

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

— Noam Chomsky

I was actually working throughout the worst of the recession. I watched half my team lose their jobs, the hours were longer and the…

— Roxanne Emery

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits…

— David Korten

I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more…

— Verite

I talked with people starting up in the middle of the recession and employees, and supplies and office space were cheap. As far as…

— JJ Ramberg

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

— Noam Chomsky