Non-Traditional Job Quotes

I would be doing anything to avoid a 9-5 job and high heels. Lifeguard, beach volleyball player, whatever.

I work when, and where I want to.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

Choosing an unconventional career path - I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it.

I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.

I don't really have a 9-5, which I love, as every day is so different.

I never felt that I should have taken a 'regular job;' I was always lucky enough to be in regular employment as an actress.

We didn't grow up with TV as a viable means of supporting yourself.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

I'm not doing a 9 to 5 job, so every week is different; one week I might be at home for three or four days, and another week it'll be busier. That's the beauty of my job.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

I've never had that boring office job. All my jobs were music related.

There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.