Jameela Jamil Quotes

Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.

Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.

We have to do everything we can to help students and adult learners to prepare for the careers of today as well as the careers of tomorrow.

I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

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

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a career, but it was more of an intention than an actual decision. I was very interested in a lot of different subjects, but every time I envisioned myself actually pursuing one as a career, I always ended up thinking that I would rather be acting.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

I didn't understand that I couldn't just leave and become sort of a semi-regular. I had to be sat down by the line producer, Carol Himes, in my dressing room and told, 'I hear you're thinking about going to college.'

If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!

I wanted to have something to fall back on. I got my degree in business administration.

Certainty regarding your career aged 15 is very unusual.

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

At the end of the day, everybody has the right to choose their own path in their career.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.