Bill Clinton Quotes

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

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

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

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

Tough times were when I didn't have a job and nobody called me.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

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.

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

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

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

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

I really wait for the job to come. Whatever job comes up, I just want to keep working. The jobs don't always come, so you take whatever is available and hope it's a good one.

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

I think about work all the time. I was in my bathroom yesterday and thought, 'I could never work again.' I don't have a job lined up right now - what if I never get another one?

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.