Mickie James Quotes

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

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.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

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

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

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

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

When you're working, you're in the present, but you've always got one eye on where your next job might be coming from, and I don't think that will ever go away.

The reality of a long-term career is that there are ups and downs.

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

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.