Professional Mobility Quotes

When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer to another Eng. organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%. Women were transferring out of the organization, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit.

I've been traded a couple times, but I've enjoyed the experience of new cities and cultures and all types of things.

I was lucky to find a way to get a visa as an independent worker, which is hard to do. On top of that, I do live in the States, which means I'm not 'taking my skills back to Canada.'

But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.

I never want to get tied to one project or be in one TV show forever.

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

As far as the international industry is concerned, I don't think people care at all where you are from - if the work interests them.

Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I was going to be from one day to the next. I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

New York is fantastic, and I've done several films in Los Angeles which I really enjoyed, but I don't think that America is the be-all and end-all. I'll follow the good work wherever it may be.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

I'd love to work in Argentina but there aren't any possibilities to manage there. The managers always remain the same. They just swap clubs once in a while.

I am used to moving homes in football, and it seems to be a recurring theme in my career.

My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

Paris is a Roach Motel for top American journalists: They check in, having won the plum foreign posting, but never leave.

My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of the menu. Today, dancers need to try as many companies as possible without having a drop-dead loyalty to me or anyone else. They like to have the leeway to go their own way.

Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.

You don't choose. I just go where the work is.