Sylvia Plath Quotes

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.

I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I'm funny, but maybe I'm one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?

I don't understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven't gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.

You don't choose. I just go where the work is.

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.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

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.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.