Unfulfilling Job Quotes

Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

Some people go to their job. That's the job they have; they have to do it. They hate their boss and their coworkers, this and that. It's hard to get along.

I felt that working at an office from the early morning was impossible for me. Anyway, I wanted to be free from that lifestyle as soon as possible. I wanted to take it easy.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

The best part about my job is that I'm pampered and always treated like a Barbie doll on the sets. But the worst part is that I have to work daily without many breaks.

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I went to college, got a job. Not a good job or anything but I was fully set to be an office employee for my life.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

You know I enjoy modeling but at the end of the day it's a little bit mindless. I mean I was that person that would come home from a modeling job and have to clean the house because I sort of felt like, what the heck did I do today? You know I mean I'm like woo-hoo, I'm changing the world in these blue high heels and a string bikini.

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

I always remember this neighbor who would ask me to babysit for her. She looked like Jayne Mansfield, and I remember babysitting for, like, five hours and she would pay me 80 cents, with a phony smile. I used to go home fuming to my mum.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

I'm an actress but it's not fulfilling me in the way I thought it would.

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.