Fleur East Quotes

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.

You would be amazed how many people call my office looking for work every day.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

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

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

Think of how much time is spent looking and applying for jobs. Some of those who have read my book on the precariat have told me they have applied for thousands of jobs. This is scarcely leisure; it is work.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.

First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.

Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.

Never turn down a job you haven’t been offered.

By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.

While you are searching for a job, it is a good idea to be on your best behavior.

I only applied for 'Countdown' as a bit of a laugh while applying for lots of other graduate jobs. I've had some amazing opportunities, and I've loved every minute.

People look at your CV and assume you jump from job to job to job. They don't see the months in between where you're waiting for the phone to ring, or you're waiting to hear about things.

I'm not looking to coach in Chicago.

People are going to hire you, or they're not, and there's only so much you can do to hedge your bets.

I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.

The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.