Nina Tassler Quotes

Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

You never know the way your career takes.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like 'you know what, let me just be a soap star!'

Every successful career I've ever known was filled with long periods of meandering, months or even years when no one knew what would happen next. Look at me: I started as a geology major turned failed realtor.

I'm not sure if career can be planned.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

I guess my career has gone in a roundabout way.

I don't know what my daughter will become.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.

After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.