Andrej Pejic Quotes

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.

The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.

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

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

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good.

You can't get work without working.

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.

Whenever I go on a job interview, I always recommend Rachel Talalay. I love her.

'Space finder' is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it's followed me ever since.

Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large.

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

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.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

I never could get a proper job.

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.

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.

When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.