Job Instability Quotes

I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.

Some people welcome the flexibility of a zero-hours contract. But their growth is symptomatic of a wider issue - increasing job insecurity and falling living standards in David Cameron's Britain.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated the precariat's insecurities.

Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

Most adults get to a point in their careers where they feel secure, where they have a body of work behind them that will ensure longevity, and for actors, it's just not like that. You're basically always a temp, going from job to job.

Everyone has ups and downs. You can't always get exciting roles.

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

My father had to shift from the village because he didn't have a steady job.

The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.

Well, I don't have much job security.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.