Rachel Riley Quotes

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

I believe in career cycles and when one is close to ending you start to plan things. It's the moment for a change.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

I think nothing I've done has impacted my life as much as working on 'Treme,' because it was the first project that I worked on in the United States after being an actor in the Netherlands my whole life, basically.

Before 'Broad City,' I had a lot of jobs that I knew were not for me, but when you're young and don't know exactly what you're going to do, if an opportunity comes up, you feel like, 'This is an opportunity; I have to try it.'

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.

I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

I always intended to return to the private sector.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.