Jane Clayson Quotes

You don't need to be defined by your job.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Some people are defined by what they do.

The person I am is who I am. My life is my career, my career is my life.

You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

When I was a kid, I remember my parents would say, 'Baseball is what you do, but that's not who you are' - like that might be my job, but that's not the end-all, be-all. I feel like I might even be able to use it to help other people or open some doors or explore more opportunities.

The way I see it is if I can't be happy doing this job, which is my dream job, then what's going to make me happy in life?

It's not all about money for me.

I'm going to play as long as I can, but my identity is not in this game.

Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.