Brooke Baldwin Quotes

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

I don't play for job security.

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

I want to do presenting, I love DJing, I love writing but none of it's a guaranteed job so it's still very scary.

Moving forward, I don't really know what I want to do. There is an opportunity within the media for me, but I would like to give back to football in some way if I'm able to help.

I always said the whole time all I was waiting for was an opportunity and a chance to get my foot in the door.

No disrespect to Cardiff but they probably needed me more than I needed them, when I was appointed.

Til I am getting my choice of work, I will keep working.

For millennials especially, mobility has become a key factor in selecting a potential career path and in choosing an appropriate employer.

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

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 recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

I never could get a proper job.

My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It's best to take it as it comes and work as hard as you can, and hopefully the other things fall into place.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That's the career path.

For the majority of my career, I've been surprised that I've been able to sustain any kind of a plan. I was always happy to have the job, and I was having a good time. I was growing. But I don't feel all that strongly about my work.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.