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I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

— Terry J. Lundgren

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

— Andrea Jung

I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Mississippi. I was making, like, $2.15 an hour. And I was taught how to responsibly handle those customer interactions.

— Marsha Blackburn

I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.

— Edward Lampert

In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.

— Rob Kardashian

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

— Lee Pace

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

— Ernest Borgnine

I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.

— Tom Riley

✗Opposing Perspectives

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

— Rachel Roy

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

— Reggie Watts