Mika Brzezinski Quotes

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining.

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

When you lose your job and it is about football, I can quickly put things in order and move on.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really can't complain.

I don't like not working.

I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.

After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

I hate being out of work!

As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

So many people in this world get up every day and go to their nine-to-five job they hate for 12 months a year for 30 years. I kind of do a self-check and evaluation to realize I'm very blessed and grateful to be where I am.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.

I don't know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don't have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald's, and the rest is history.

I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then Thomas Cook and Sons. The last job was particularly interesting, but I got fired from it.

I always say, I have been fired from more jobs than most people would ever have had in their entire career.