Charlie Trotter Quotes

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

After college, I never really knew what I wanted to do, so that's why I got into professional wrestling.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.