Jen Lancaster Quotes

If you've got to get fired, it's really fabulous to get fired with a friend.

Getting fired is hard.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

I actually got fired from 'The O.C.'

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

When 'MADtv' got cancelled, I didn't work at all - for three years.

I hate being out of work!

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

I'm very good at being out of work.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.'