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When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

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.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

I brought my sons into the business to extend my working life, so I could keep my hand in the business.