But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
… a steady job with decent pay and health benefits, rising living standards, a home of your own, secure retirement, and the hope that your children would enjoy a better future.
I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.
I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.
I wanted a stable job, and I wanted to feel like I was grounded with my family and to have personal relationships in my life that were healing and honest and genuine.
My father drove a truck, and my mother was a school teacher. They wanted their children to go the traditional route: get good grades, go to college, get a job.
My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.
I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.
Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.
My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.
The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.
For the working actor, there's nothing more stable than a network television show.
We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
I want a regular pay cheque.
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.
I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.
I always wanted to be a designer and always felt surprised as a child when my sister used to deliberate about whether to be a nurse or a teacher.
My job, at the very least, doesn't change at all.
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
