Jameela Jamil Quotes

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.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

Broaden your work experience - either within your company or through your job progression in other companies.

I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

Ask people who have the job you want how they got it.

As you move along, it's about choices. Once you've gathered enough credits, you have to be more specific. You have to know what level of show you want to work on and be willing to turn down a lot of work to have the career you want.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

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

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

I never think career.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.