Belinda Johnson Quotes

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

Even after working at 'MarketWatch' and loving journalism and loving business news, I still wanted to be a lawyer because it was my plan.

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.

I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.

I graduated with all honors, and I was about to take the LSATs, and I was working at a law firm, and I hated it.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

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.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

Another occupation might have been better.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.