Gwynne Shotwell Quotes

Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.

How many people do you know who love their jobs? Did your dad love his job? Was he passionate about it? Because I am. I love it. I love the relationships. I love teaching. I love the competition. I love everything about it.

A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

I just love where I am right now in my career.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

I had a wonderful career.

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.

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

Absolutely I'd be happy with my career.

I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives.

I'm very happy with my career, don't get me wrong.

In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.