Jennifer Pahlka Quotes

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.

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

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

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 recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

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

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

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

I liked my old job better.

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

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 only applied for 'Countdown' as a bit of a laugh while applying for lots of other graduate jobs. I've had some amazing opportunities, and I've loved every minute.

I never worry about whether or not I'll find a job.

I always said the whole time all I was waiting for was an opportunity and a chance to get my foot in the door.

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

After college I'd take up a job and I'd experience what it is to take up a job, rather than starting out on my own. I said let me just work for six months so that I know myself a little better.

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