Belinda Johnson Quotes

Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.

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

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

I worked as a receptionist in England for a couple of years whilst I was building up my business. I decided to take a massive pay cut from my full-time job and work as a receptionist so I could make my own business work.

Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.

I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

Ambitious parents need more flexibility in how, where, and when they work, including the ability to work less or even not at all for a period. Equally important, they will need employers … who don’t view this kind of a zig-zag career path as a lack of commitment or professionalism.

People don't work in a dotcom because they have to. There are many professions that don't require that sort of time. But people sign up because they want to make world-changing differences, to build something that affects millions of people.

My career may look bizarre to some, but I have very strong reasons for doing every single job I've done.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

I don't think, because I'm going to school for something else, that I will stop being an actress.

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

I did the 'right' thing and got a corporate job on Wall Street. That did not last long. I felt like I was throwing all my years of hard work and relationship-building down the toilet. I eventually quit, went and bought a camera, and built a website. That was the birth of KarenCivil.com.

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.