I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.
I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.
I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.
Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal.
I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.
I am just an apprentice.