Occupational Choice Quotes

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.

Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Becoming a police officer is a choice. It's not something you're born into.

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn't want to be at school.

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

We have found fathers and grandfathers of children with autism are more likely to be engineers.

To any child, the first occupations that are presented to you are your parents'. I was appealed to my dad's occupation from the get-go.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

I have not decided if I want to be a teacher or an actor, because I like both of them.

To ordain that any kind of persons shall not be physicians, or shall not be advocates, or shall not be Members of Parliament, is to injure not them only, but all who employ physicians or advocates, or elect Members of Parliament, and who are deprived of the stimulating effect of greater competition…

If I hadn't gotten into the entertainment business, I would be probably making minimum wage still.

I turn left for a living.

Most of my friends are plumbers.