Jesse Kellerman Quotes

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.

That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn't into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.

I never wanted to work a 9 to 5. I was always a different kid in class.

More and more people are getting turned out of their corporations and laid off. As more people leave that behind, they're tapping into their own skill sets and talents and doing something for themselves.

The truth was that I didn't want a career in the conventional business world.

I've been called a career hippie. I like that, I like that a lot.

I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.

I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do. So I sometimes try and dumb it down as much as possible, so I'm changing what I do every time! So sometimes I'm in an Uber, and they ask, 'So what do you do?' and I say, 'I'm a comedian,' or, 'I'm a graphic designer.'