Jacinda Ardern Quotes

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as selling used cars, selling apparel, cosmetics, and real-estate, substitute-teaching six graders, teaching undergraduate creative writing, and working as an editorial assistant for a literary magazine.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're passionate about, then lock down. Even if you want to start a business, it's helpful to work, see how other businesses are run.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.

For a long time, I thought, 'I'm not a TV presenter,' but now I realise there's no typical route into this business.

I've sort of overlapped every job that I've done, really.

My career has taken so many directions.

I've done everything. I've been ring crew, I've been driver for a blind promoter, I've been a valet, I've been a referee, I've been a ring announcer, I've been a corporate officer, play-by-play man, blah, blah, blah. No one has been on my journey.

I feel like I've grown up, not only at NBC, but also at 'Today.'

Doing modeling was a fun thing for me. At a young age, being able to earn was exciting. I got to work with some very talented designers and models. But there was always a yearning in me to do something more.

I was a business major, then went to law school, and I practiced a few years.

I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.

I basically got into the radio game 'cause I was looking to do something positive with my life.

I actually had a number of different careers. I worked on Wall Street; I was a Master's in Business. I left that to work in the public sector.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.