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“Life seeks for willing soul. You can be the one.”

“Let these men sing out their songs, they've been walking all day long, all their fortune's spent and gone... silver dollar in the subway station; quarters for the papers for the jobs.”

“Purpose in general is for me to do something I have fun in doing. I want to be excited to wake up. I want to be excited to do my work. I want to feel like I'm playing when I'm doing my work. I'm very curious so I want to feel like a constant learner. I like having great conversations with interesting people [...]; I love creating; artistically creating; and it allows me to continually stay in excitable mode.”

“I had pictured the corporate world that I seek to enter as a castle on a hill, outside of which the starving vagrants wander, beset upon by wolves and barbarian hordes, begging for entry into the safety of the fortified towers. But now I see there is another zone out here: a somewhat settled encampment, where people toil for uncertain rewards at minor tasks invented by the castle dwellers. There is an advantage to occupying this zone: you are free of the rigid conformity required of those who dwell inside; you can actually “Be Your Own Boss!” A few do very well, acquiring pink Cadillacs or fortunes from real estate deals. Many more are ruined or pour themselves into efforts that generate near-poverty-level earnings year after year. There is no safety out here; the wolves keep circling.”

“Less mutable qualities, like age, may have worked against me too. My résumé revealed only that I was probably over forty. But even that relatively youthful status could have repulsed many potential employers. Business journalist Jill Andresky Fraser warned me that a forty-plus woman was unlikely to be hired except by someone seeking a “motherly secretary,” Katherine Newman, among others, has documented corporate age discrimination, quoting, for example, a Wall Street executive who told her, “Employers think that [if you’re over forty] you can’t think anymore. Over fifty and [they think] you’re burned out.”

“Yes, it can be quite agonizing to walk away from what looks like a great offer. But what you must grasp is that if you proceed you could end up working in a culture that is totally out of whack with your values and that can wreck you mentally and physically. No offer is worth that price.”

“Unemployed people will use any number of excuses including discrimination for reasons such as disability, race, sexual orientation, religion, sex or age, or maybe there’s a shortage of jobs in their area. Well if that’s the case then they can travel to wherever the work is and go into digs. I work in construction management and regularly work with steel erectors from Ireland or Newcastle, electricians from Cardiff, fixers from Sheffield or Birmingham, steel fixers from Romania, carpenters from Poland, canteen girls from Romania, scaffolders from Lithuania, and concrete gangs of Indians, and they all travel wherever the work is and they all live in digs. We all do. It’s the nature of our industry.”

“i'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!;)”

“What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.”

“Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?”

“I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.”

“Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.”

“The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.”

“Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.”

“In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.”

“Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.”

“Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.”

“Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?”

“When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.”

“There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.”

“Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.”

“We don’t deserve our job. Period.”

“When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you." It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.”

“The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.”

“Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.”

“Anything is possible with laughter. If you can laugh out loud, especially at a life of mistakes, you will come out unscathed.”

“Stand strong in your value. That starts by knowing your value.”

“Never allow your reality to be influenced by another's listless view of you.”

“Life will astound you when you give something a shot after being shot down.”

“Sometimes you have to "play the part" to become the part.”

“Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.”

“Indiscretions can lead to great lessons.”

“When you make an embarrassing mistake, learn to let the memories be enough to let you laugh about it today.”

“It's your life and no one else cares as much about it as you should.”

“When you seek first to develop relationships based on personal and human ground, you will surely gain interest of another party.”