Ryan Holmes Quotes

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

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

Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

Some jobs you do, they're just jobs. Others are life experiences.

If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career.

I've been really lucky that I've kind of gotten to flow from project to project, because I find it's very important that when you're on a project, you are so invested in it.

With me and Portland, it wasn't moving anywhere. I wasn't given a bigger role as I played more and more with the club. I felt I could have been utilized in a bigger way.

I've had a good career, some good experiences.

I think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there's no real compromise if you're trying to move on.

Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.

You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.

Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you're not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.

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.

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

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

Once a waitress, always a waitress.

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.