Victoria Jackson Quotes

I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

I think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there's no real compromise if you're trying to move on.

I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.

I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over.

I love everybody I work with. It's really like a family. I can't imagine leaving. It's weird. I know at some point I'll have to leave, but I don't really have any plan for that yet. Anytime you're leaving, it's going to be a crapshoot. You hope you have something to do afterward, but there's no guarantee.

I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!

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.

It is important that you appreciate that the workplace must be a place of empowerment, but the empowerment must not only be connected to the job that you do.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn't feel were the moon or the stars.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.

The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.

I liked my old job better.