Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.

I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do.

Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

I used to work the graveyard shift.

I don't work 9 to 5.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work.

Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United States, you know. And Norway's doing well, by the way.

You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it!

This is the greatest country in the world for people who want to work, but we have to make sure that this is always true..

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

We must have modern conditions to meet modern machinery. As labor-saving devices are installed and used for production we must necessarily shorten the number of hours per day, and we are now at the state where we will necessarily have to come to a five day week because, gentlemen, you cannot have prosperity unless you have employment.