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"I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... No interview required"

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The glamour of Chris Hemsworth’s brand gets punctured, on purpose, by the almost aggressively unglamorous detail: cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy. It’s a disarming anecdote that swaps red carpets for the back room, and the specificity is doing the heavy lifting. “Breast pumps” isn’t generic “retail work.” It’s bodily, intimate, slightly awkward, and therefore credible. You can’t really fake that kind of detail without sounding like you’re trying.

The intent isn’t just relatability; it’s recalibration. Hemsworth is reminding the audience that his entry point into adulthood wasn’t a mythic origin story but a small, utilitarian job you take because you need money and you’re in school. The phrase “work force” borrows a formal, almost bureaucratic seriousness, then gets undercut by the task itself. That contrast creates humor without a punchline and frames him as someone who can laugh at the machinery behind everyday life.

“No interview required” is the quiet twist of the knife. It signals how low the barrier to entry was, how quickly necessity can assign you a role, how little ceremony most work comes with. Subtextually, it also sidesteps celebrity bootstrap clichés: he’s not claiming hardship as a badge, just describing the frictionless anonymity of early jobs. In a culture that sells aspiration through curated “before” narratives, this one lands because it’s not heroic. It’s mildly gross, perfectly normal, and that’s why it reads as honest.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hemsworth, Chris. (2026, February 17). I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... No interview required. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-entered-the-work-force-cleaning-breast-pumps-at-108819/

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Hemsworth, Chris. "I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... No interview required." FixQuotes. February 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-entered-the-work-force-cleaning-breast-pumps-at-108819/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... No interview required." FixQuotes, 17 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-entered-the-work-force-cleaning-breast-pumps-at-108819/. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.

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Chris Hemsworth (born August 11, 1983) is a Actor from Australia.

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