My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.
I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.
Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love - I never got over that.
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.
The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.
I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.
This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.
She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.
Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans.