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I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

— Eleanor Catton

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

— James D'arcy

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

— Jane Green

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

— Edmund Hillary

I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.

— Alek Wek

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.

— John Thaw

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

— Jon Postel

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

— Angie Martinez

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.

— Margot Robbie

I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

— Alexis Denisof