Alan Hansen Quotes

Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

After college, I never really knew what I wanted to do, so that's why I got into professional wrestling.

Towards the end of my career, I was thinking about going into the media world. It's crucial: with three to four years left in the game, you begin to plan for the end.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

I know so many people who've been through situations where they've gone from one career to another and have had such a tough time because they didn't have any support doing it.

Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me.

I've had several different careers.

When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.

When I was graduating college with an economics degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was kind of scared. So I was just trying everything.

I had no clue what I wanted to do. I tried nursing, I tried science, I tried English. I just kept bouncing back and forth.

If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

To be honest, I have no idea what happens after my career.

Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.

I talked to a lot of people that switched careers. Not necessarily to acting, but switched jobs. The 'becoming a student again' is the thing that always kept coming up.

I think it's very important that you don't start thinking about your life after football when you are 33 or 34. There are many more amazing things in this world, and it's important to think about these things before you retire.

To get a job in TV is just amazing.

I didn't always have research jobs.

As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?

I do not think my career is over after being at Real Madrid.

Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large.