Syd Barrett Quotes

In order for you to find a job, people need to know you're looking.

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

You can't get work without working.

There are real tricks to getting a job that I just don't like or understand - it feels too close to pandering. I've tried it, but it doesn't work.

Whenever I go on a job interview, I always recommend Rachel Talalay. I love her.

'Space finder' is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it's followed me ever since.

Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large.

Most of the jobs I've gotten are from people calling me. I don't actively solicit a lot of work like that, but maybe I should.

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

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.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

I didn't have any media training - I didn't have anybody but myself.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

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 anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.

I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

It's tough to reenter the work force.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.