Neal Asher Quotes

From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

I've worked at a deli, I've worked construction, I've worked a few different jobs.

I had a lot of different jobs.

I've had so many jobs other than acting, it's insane.

I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.

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.

Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously reading novels.

I've been a paperboy, a short-order cook, a warehouse clerk, and, eventually, a partner at IBM.

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.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.

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

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.