William Faulkner Quotes

I am a babe for a living.

I don't say that I have a job. I have a gig, or a piece, or a film, or a show, but it's never a job.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

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I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.

I never once had a regular paycheck. Not for more than six weeks in a row and for the most part not even that. I still haven't. The notion of some whistling kid with a mail cart coming down the hall and handing me my weekly paycheck is something I've only seen in Matthew Broderick movies.

In 2008, after holding down a day job for all of six weeks, I gave up on the whole job thing to pursue an online business. At the time, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, but I figured if I was going to be broke and miserable, I might as well be while working on my own terms.

In 2012, when I left MTV, irregular income started.

If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.

When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.

The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.

I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.

Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.

My wife and I sold our house New York and moved to Australia for a year; then we came back and spent almost three years bumming around the country in an old '61 VW van. We put the kids in school wherever we happened to be, but mainly we reveled in being rootless.

I pay my rent with my Instagram.

I'm never going to struggle but I definitely want to make more money, we all do.

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

I've lived a life of unplanned freelance employment.

I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.

More and more people are getting turned out of their corporations and laid off. As more people leave that behind, they're tapping into their own skill sets and talents and doing something for themselves.