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It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Occupation leads to alienation.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work - I'm singing, tellin' jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying.

I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it.

It is an immeasurable tragedy to spend a sizeable portion of one's waking hours doing a job that does not excite you nor infuse you with a sense of purpose.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

The whole thing with so many people empathising with 'The Office' has made me aware of how people aren't doing jobs they love, aren't living a life they love. Which I find devastating.

Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'

Whenever I work, I'm never really happy. I'm always second-guessing.

I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.

I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.

It's horrible when you go to work and you're not happy.

I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.