Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.

If you don't like what you're doing, get out.

I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.

A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

A career is a job that has gone on too long.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

Another occupation might have been better.

I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.