Shelley Conn Quotes

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

How have I lived so long? I never worried. In the '20s, there were millions of men out of work. You couldn't get a job anywhere. I wasn't worried.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

I really wait for the job to come. Whatever job comes up, I just want to keep working. The jobs don't always come, so you take whatever is available and hope it's a good one.

Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'

I never could get a proper job.

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

I can't find a job. It makes me crazy.

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

I hate being out of work!

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

I do panic when I'm out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I'm not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better.