Caroline Buchanan Quotes

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

It’s hard to have a better job than the government, where you really do have an opportunity to have a broad reaching impact. Very few private sector jobs are going to offer you that.

I wouldn't trade the best days of my life in the private sector for the worst days of my life in the public sector.

I have commissioners who had very good jobs, making good salaries, and gave up something to work for the state.

In the public sector, there are a million people in the health service. There ought to be a couple of dozen or more on the Labour side, who learned their trade in different parts of the health service, and the public sector, and local government. And bus drivers, and people on the Underground.

I am always in my space and it's a happy space. It gets stressful at times, but that's a part and parcel of our job.

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

I'm still working for the government.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

I find that a small sacrifice such as switching off my phone and blocking out work helps me stay balanced.

I would be flattered and honored to be considered for any position where I could serve my country.

I never told anyone how unhappy I was because I was also grateful I had a job versus so many people that didn't. I did not think I was allowed to be miserable, but I was overworked, sleep-deprived and just lost.

You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

When you work too much, it affects your health. Then you start working out and dieting. And, more importantly, you miss your family.

With more and more stress from work, at times I really do hope to have someone I can lean upon.

A guy who hates his job isn't going to be too charming at home.

Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.