Non-Traditional Employment Quotes

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

I don't want to be in an office. That's not my thing.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors who would tell us to work in department stores and stay below the bar and not overreach our grasp. I didn't believe any of them.

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

The truth was that I didn't want a career in the conventional business world.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?

For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do. So I sometimes try and dumb it down as much as possible, so I'm changing what I do every time! So sometimes I'm in an Uber, and they ask, 'So what do you do?' and I say, 'I'm a comedian,' or, 'I'm a graphic designer.'

If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life. We'd go and stay for a few weeks with Dad on tour and bring a tutor with us.

Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.'

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn't into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.