Jami Gertz Quotes

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

First and foremost, I enjoy working. I'm not at that level where I can pick and choose anything. When I get hired, I take it, and I'm like, 'Let's go!'

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I don't really think in career terms.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.