Quotes about Career

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

In addition to a job description designed around your current employment, develop what you would consider to be the ultimate job description. This is for your eyes only. The goal of this exercise is to help you identify the niche in which you would feel most productive and consequently most successful. Dream a little.

Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.