Michelle Fairley Quotes

I think in coaching you just expect it to end at some point by being let go or by being fired. It's just kind of the nature of the business, so I've never really focused on that. I'm just trying to focus on doing the job as well as I can.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.

If you discover that a role isn't complex, you can speak to somebody about it and they'll help you push it when you're on set.

I got 'slotted' and started getting offers similar to the role I had in 'Maryada.'

As people know in coaching, you can get fired and hired just like that.

I know I won't be a manager, I don't want to do it, never.

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

It's hard to have a career.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

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

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

Every job has a unique situational circumstance.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.