Dave Barry Quotes

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

I'm just confident about where my career is headed.

Before taking up law, I studied medicine for six months and then tried my hand at fashion designing for another six months. I wanted to find something that excited me. Finally, it was law that captured my interest.

I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

I have no ambition to be a technical director or TV pundit.

Most people don't go back to trial work after being in management, but I couldn't do anything else.

Since I was a young girl, I always wanted to pursue law studies. I would have never imagined that my career would have taken a complete different route.

I am happy that my career has been successful and I want to finish at the highest level possible.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

I'll never forget the day I went home and told my wife, 'I'll never be a kindergarten teacher.'

I'm sure I'm going to have a long and successful career.

I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I just decided on another profession.

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she'd always be like, 'But what if you went to college and you got a degree?' She'd try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn't have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.

I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.

I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO.

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

If I only worked in England for the rest of my life, I wouldn't feel like I failed.

I feel unfulfilled in England. I think I'm a decent manager and a very good coach. I've still got a lot to offer some club who will maybe take a chance on me.

I always found new challenges in my career.

I went to college and did advanced electronical engineering, not really knowing what I wanted to do. It bored me to death, so I dropped out.

When I graduated from UCLA, I actually started interviewing for banking jobs. But at some point I realized a career in banking felt more like a continuation of school than a passion.

I graduated college and moved back home, started helping my dad, did landscaping for a living.

I often run teaching down in my standup, but I had some great years, and it's a great job. It represented a place where I knew what I wanted to do but didn't have the courage.

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.

I always wanted to become a doctor but then my plans changed gradually.