Ezra Klein Quotes

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to 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.

I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job.

I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

I don't know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don't have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald's, and the rest is history.

My dad used to cut out newspaper ads and post them to me in the hope I'd get a proper job.

Til I am getting my choice of work, I will keep working.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I haven't got a real job.