“I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.” JobsUsedInternetProjectsVery GoodDrawingCodeMy TimeObscureFunny ThingsGlamorousVirginiaNasaRetrospectOld JobDrawing Pictures Author:Randall Munroe
“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” WayWantDeathHeavenChangeDyingDiedManagementInventionAgentsDeath And DyingGraduationMaking ChangesLife DeathWanting To DieBest JobCommencementDying DeathChange AgentInspirational DeathI Want To DieMotivational JobConnecting The DotsStanford UniversitySuccess MantraLoss Loved One InspirationalNew InventionsGraduation SpeechBeautiful DeathGraduation CommencementMeaningful DeathFacing DeathWanted To DieCrazy InspirationalGraduation CeremonyOld Job Author:Steve Jobs
“Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.” InspirationalLongDeathRight NowSorryDramaticSomedayMaking ChangesBest JobChange AgentMotivational JobConnecting The DotsStanford UniversitySuccess MantraGraduation CommencementCrazy InspirationalOld Job Author:Steve Jobs
“If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.” IfsMotivationalJobsPassionChanceCareersGreaterBuiltFulfillmentLongevityPaychecksOld Job Author:Katherine Schwarzenegger
“In Afghanistan, U.S. troops are now holding an American man who has been fighting alongside the Taliban. His mother says he was born in Washington, D.C. and his father's a lawyer. Well, that explains it. ... He surrendered to authorities and said he wants to go back to his old job - airline security guard.” MenWantWellsHas BeensSaidJobsMotherFightingFatherBornSecurityAuthorityLawyerAfghanistanTroopsAirlineTalibanSecurity GuardsOld JobAirline Security Author:Jay Leno
“Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.” MenMeanDoeCountryWantedJobsFitMen And WomenStandingEvery ManEmploymentCertaintyUnemploymentEmployedIntervalsNew JobWorking LifeOld Job Author:William Beveridge
“This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time. It's a really, really old job. When you look at the way that a small band toured back in the '50s, it's similar to the way that a small band tours now. It's been this long tradition, and when you meet somebody who has been doing this for a really long time, you have to have tremendous respect for them.” WayFeelsLooksLongHas BeensJobsSoundBandMusicianLong TimeTraditionCornyReally LongOld Job Author:Will Sheff
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” PeopleWayWantInspirationalShouldDeathDiesHeavenShareDyingDiedInventionAgentsDestinationDeath And DyingMaking ChangesLife DeathWanting To DieBest JobDying DeathChange AgentInspirational DeathI Want To DieMotivational JobConnecting The DotsPeople DyingStanford UniversitySuccess MantraLoss Loved One InspirationalNew InventionsBeautiful DeathMeaningful DeathFacing DeathWanted To DieSomeone Who Is DyingLoved Ones Who DiedCrazy InspirationalPeople Who Are DyingThose Who Have DiedOld Job Author:Steve Jobs
“It used to be the case, like, you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job. Just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.” PeopleDoeHardJobsUsedEasyCasesLike YouUsed To BeOld Job Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.” ChildrenJobsTrainingRaisesBoringEmployeeOld JobNew Employees Book:Haunted Source: Haunted
“But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.” PeopleWantStillsJobsStuckReplacedOld Job Author:William Zinsser
“. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly.” IfsMenWayLifeJobsCertainCenturyTheoryMachinesEnglandDestroyedAbstractFollyTempted19th CenturyWeavingOld WaysOld Job Author:James A. Michener
“When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.” PeopleTodayJobsUsedModelsLike MeDescriptionShut UpOld Job Author:Kathy Ireland