There was no salary. Not even a reasonable promise of a job.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Pursuit of Happyness movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:46:54 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- If you back out, you know what I'll look like to the partners?
- Yeah, an ass A-hole, all the way.
- Tonight.
- There was no salary. Not even a reasonable promise of a job.
- Hello, Jesus, Jesus children...
- One intern was hired at the end of the program from a pool of 20.
- And if you weren't that guy, you couldn't even apply the six months' training to another brokerage.
- Only resource I would have for six months would be my six scanners which I could still try to sell.
- If I sold them all, maybe we might get by.
[...]