Something I can't stress enough is the massive importance of work experience. It's the only way to find out what work is really like when you're figuring out what path to take and to get an understanding of what it takes to achieve your career ambitions.
I don't think I'll ever be a housewife.
If you'd asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.
Chiru is very supportive of my acting career and always pushes me to do good work. In fact, he expects me to continue my acting career even after the marriage.
I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.
You know what, I didn't see myself being an executive producer.
It's a weird place to be in because my dreams in life have surpassed what I could have ever imagined. I just hope I can continue to write stand-up, but I would say my big dream is to build an amazing family. It's so boring and cheesy, but that's my focus.
I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it.
I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.
In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made clear that wasn't going to happen, though.
I went to Germany taking a chance on seeing what Europe was like, and taking on that new challenge. Obviously it wasn't for me at the time, but I always had that goal to come back to the U.S. and work hard and hopefully go back to Europe.
You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.
I'm very career-minded.
I have no particular career agenda.
I need to know what I'm doing. I've got my own career. I'm not waiting.
It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.
I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.
I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.
We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.
