Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

I wanted to set 'Heading Out' in a real world, a concept I originally struggled with, as I don't have a proper job.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.

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

I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I'm funny, but maybe I'm one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

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 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 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.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.

I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.