Evan Glodell Quotes

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

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

If you had asked me, did I have everything nailed down and wired about what I wanted to do, and was I following some real plan? No. In fact, by the time I was in my mid-20s or even late-20s, and I was still in the law firm, I really was starting to get a little nervous that I didn't know what I was going to do.

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'