Alexis Herman Quotes

A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.

While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree.

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

A generation ago, it wasn't necessary to have a college degree to get into the middle class …

For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.

For me, when you're standing in Parramatta you'll be looking to the west for the best jobs, not necessarily the east.

I work with kids every day, and I preach to them how much more they make and how much easier it is to get a job when they get a college education.

I'm not going to sit here and be stupid. If someone comes and offers me double what I'm on, of course I'm going to sit down and seriously look at it.

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

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

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.