Unfulfilling Career Quotes

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.

I'd rather be dead than work in a warehouse.

When I left school at 14, I thought I had better get a job. I got one in a factory where I sewed on buttons. It was so boring and we weren't allowed to talk or sing. I lasted a day.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

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.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'

Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.

How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it?

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.

Oh God, I've done telesales. It doesn't get much lower than that, really. That's the job I enjoyed the least.

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.

Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.