Michael Che Quotes

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

I think I made the wrong career choice

A less-than dream job can help you find your dreams.

But everything that I did starting out, every job that I had, I haven't regretted any of them. They've all been informative, interesting in one way or another. With a career, I think there's this idea that you're just trying to get somewhere. It's like, "Oh, okay, let's keep going, because if I do this, I can get this, I get this, this." It wasn't that way. I did what I wanted to do when it was in front of me, and I'm trying to continue to do that.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

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

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.

There's this notion that actors choose their career. After a certain level, I think that that's true. I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

To me, all those jobs I did [roles] have been amazing experiences for one reason or another. I got paid and I learned something. I think that's what helped me carry on because I've never really given out that energy of, "oh, I've lost my chance" or missed it in some way.

A career is a job that has gone on too long.