Wes Craven Quotes

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.

Your first job can set the trajectory for the rest of your career.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

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.

Work experience for many is their first taste of work and an essential first step into the jobs market.

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

You don't choose. I just go where the work is.

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've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

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

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

The career stuff is for business people.

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

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.

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.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.