Underemployed Quotes

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

It’s very easy to protest when you have a job

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

Professional bums!

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.