Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

I think that one of the things that we have to recognize is that the longer somebody doesn't have a job, the harder it is to get a new job. You know, the reality is that if you're out of job, and you're looking for a job, then the new employer's going to say, 'Well, why, you know, don't you have a job now? What's wrong with you?'

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate.

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.

After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

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

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older. They're there now, and I'm just not going to panic.

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

I no longer say I'm unemployed. I say I'm unemployable. It's different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That's not the case with me. I'm unemployable, and unfortunately, that's one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.