Katharine Graham Quotes

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

Work is no longer challenging.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.

People have no idea how much I hate this job.

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

I don't ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.

Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

Sometimes I think I'll go off and be a milkman or a greengrocer, some easy job.

I was initially excited about modelling, but soon, I started feeling detached with the job. I wanted dynamic growth in whatever I did.

I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.