The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.
Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.
Normally when people resign they will organise their champagne farewell parties... and then they resurface somewhere.
I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?
I'm not going to sit here and be stupid. If someone comes and offers me double what I'm on, of course I'm going to sit down and seriously look at it.
We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.
But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
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.
From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.
People change jobs much more often, and therefore, companies, on average, invest less in employee development.
People change teams all the time. People might not go from Green Bay to Chicago or from Chicago to Green Bay all the time, but people change teams all the time.
When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.
