Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

I never could get a proper job.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

I do panic when I'm out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I'm not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

I haven't got a real job.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

I no longer say I'm unemployed. I say I'm unemployable. It's different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That's not the case with me. I'm unemployable, and unfortunately, that's one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.