Charles Bukowski Quotes

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing one sees, one generally does.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

I dont need a pardon. I need a job.

Go get a job after you take a bath.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.

The business of working at getting work is pretty intense. But you don't get the rewards of actually working.

Fighting for a job - that's been my mindset every Spring Training.

So I went and got my first job at 28, trying to think what I am going to do, I've never worked for anybody, so I decided to go and write and send my CV off to everyone.

I think I sent out some résumés for marketing jobs, and they all came back in the mail because I didn't have enough postage.

One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert -- slim and none, and slim just left the building.

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.

Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.

Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work.

Work experience for many is their first taste of work and an essential first step into the jobs market.

I did lie once to get a job as a bartender. I said I had two years' experience making drinks, when really, I'd never made a drink in my life.

The career I have had should warrant me getting a job. I've done all the badges. I'm doing my coaching badges with the Welsh FA.

People are going to hire you, or they're not, and there's only so much you can do to hedge your bets.