Scott Steiner Quotes

When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.

I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

I'm always trying to look for different roles.

I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

I wanted to make money very fast, and I was completely confused after college. I didn't know what career options I had. And then I had this entry point in the film industry, and I thought, 'If this is where the fast money is going to come from, let's see how it goes.'

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!