Helmut Jahn Quotes

My family said that a big firm was where you'd get the most opportunities. I knew nobody who had ever worked at a firm, nobody who knew anything about it. I just tried to get the best job I could.

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.

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

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

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

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

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.

I liked my old job better.

Coaching jobs are far and few between; you try and get into the right situation and take advantage of it from there.

I've always been a guy who comes in not being guaranteed a spot and always fighting for a spot. Any time you're in a camp, and you're not a big money guy, you're always going to be competing for a job.

The industry is big, and if I get an interesting role, I will take it up.

It's hard to get opportunities anywhere. There are a lot of coaches out there and a lot of talented coaches too. It's not easy. Quite often there's no perfect situation that emerges.

You don't choose. I just go where the work is.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

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.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

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

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 know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

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 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.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.