Sue Grafton Quotes

Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.

I hate being out of work!

I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.

It offered me the opportunity to tell 200,000 people who had applied for government jobs that they weren't getting them.

So you want this fucking job.