Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

I need my career. That's what validates me.

I am not able to think about this as a job, like work. It's 12 or 13 hours, but for me, it's not working.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

Japanese were too loyal to companies, and young people see what happened: the loyalty was wasted. They think: 'Look at Americans. They job hop. They seem to be free. That's the way we want to live.'

Some people go to their job. That's the job they have; they have to do it. They hate their boss and their coworkers, this and that. It's hard to get along.

I just want to work.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.

If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.

It's always interesting to see how other people relate to their jobs.

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

For me, call me what you want, as long as I'm working.

Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your sexuality or anything else that you have going on in your life.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

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?

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?