Laura Schlessinger Quotes

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

I had a career. His name was Ike.

I don't really think in career terms.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

I won't give up my day job of design.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

I'm not a career woman.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

Your job, what you do every day, I think it takes a high priority over anything. That was something I dedicated myself to throughout my career.

My career is my girlfriend.

I'm 28, your career is a long time. We're not tennis players or football players. I'm just about reaching what should be my peak year.

You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career, I'm definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think, 'Is all that really hard work really worth my while?'

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.