“In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.” WayShouldChildrenDoeStillsBookSoulFeelingsJobsNightWishFeltNovelTakenStupidNormalAdultsTwentiesSevenKillingHatedUsaUsualRescuePublishersDay And NightManuscriptsDamnationDrudgery Author:Tanith Lee
“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?” WantGivingDifferentSchoolJobsChoicesThreeAsksGivenSupportEconomyWeekSubjectsStudentsHigh SchoolTestsTwentiesSpendingRidiculousScoreGraduatesConsideringProbabilitySalaryProjectionDifferent JobsAllocationHigh School StudentsTest Scores Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages.'” MenSaidTwoBookWantedJobsForgetHellWeekPagesTwentiesSorryComicTake MeComic BookI'm SorrySpidersForget ItMaking TimeSpider ManTwo Jobs Author:John Romita, Sr.
“It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age.” PeopleFirstsHardAgeJobsWifeCrazyTwentiesManageMiserableHatedGood TimesHaving A Good Time Author:Frank Stella
“I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.” HelpingJobsSongRecordsWeekNeededTwentiesLibraryCongressCollectionsTranscribing Author:Pete Seeger
“By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.” WorldStillsJobsPayMistakeNiceStupidTwentiesFar AwayYour StupidStupid Mistake Author:Katie Aselton
“Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have - you don't have to do either to feel prosperous. You may have to give up your secure, high-paying corporate job, however - and grow spiritually in the process.” PeopleGivingFeelsMayLittlesStatesJobsBeliefGrowsProcessWealthRoomsEconomyEmotionalGiving UpTwentiesProsperityContrarySecureCorporateWealthyLots Of MoneyProsperousMansionsCottagesMisersContrary To Popular BeliefSpendthrift Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“The baselines belongs to the runner, and whenever I was running the bases, I always slid hard. I wanted infielders to have that instant's hesitation about coming across the bag at second or about standing in there awaiting a throw to make a tag. There are only 27 outs in a ballgame, and it was my job to save one for my team every time I possibly could.” HardRunningWantedJobsTeamStandingBasesTwentiesSevenInstantBagsRunnersHesitationTagBallgame Author:Frank Robinson
“Everybody who works in the computer industry is in an industry that didn't exist twenty-five years ago. We are talking on cell phones, and there were no such things. All the people who work for Nextel and so on, those are lost jobs that became found jobs. We are in a constant state of changing, and there are numerous opportunities in a time like this, but people are still going back to the fear.” PeopleYearsStillsStatesJobsFoundOpportunityLostTalkingFiveIndustryComputerYears AgoTwentiesConstantPhonesCellsFive YearsCell PhoneTwenty Five Author:Wayne Dyer
“I was always interested in drawing and creating, but it never really occurred to me that I could pursue art as my profession until my mid twenties. From all I had heard from other people, art was just something you do as a hobby in between your real work and real jobs.” PeopleArtRealJobsHeardCreatingTwentiesProfessionDrawingPursueHobbiesReal JobsReal Work Author:Julie Dillon
“A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.” DoeJobsDecidedTwentiesDetermined Author:Earl Nightingale
“I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!” YearsRealJobsFatherCausesCan DoMy OwnCuttingDadTwentiesMy DadMexicoEightyBucksFourteenLiverSeventeenDrinkersReal JobsLove My DadI Love My DadDrifters Author:Christopher Titus
“Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” PeopleKnowsYearsHeartEndsDoneJobsRememberFiveTeacherHeroSixTwentiesGood ThingsSatisfiedThirtyFortySuspects Author:Andy Rooney
“The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.” YearsMindJobsTwentiesFellowsFormerLatterEmployersQualificationsYears Of Experience Author:Warren Buffett
“I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.” WayJobsMy OwnNew YorkStudentsCollegeLateMarriedTwentiesNineBotherThirtyApartmentCollege StudentsPrecocious Author:Meghan Daum
“Along the way, I've worked as a waitress, I've done phone surveys, and worked as a receptionist, and for the last twenty years I've taught. When I was an actor, the key was to find a job that kept your days free to audition.” WayYearsDoneJobsLastsActorsTaughtKeysTwentiesPhonesAuditionsSurveysWaitressReceptionists Author:Debra Dean
“I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.” YearsLongReasonJobsPoliticalTwentiesSevenUniversityThirtyTemplesSeven YearsPhiladelphiaScarves Author:Gerald Stern
“I don't think in the religious way that most people associate that word with, but Hern is a committed guy. He's doing the hardest job with the late-term thing. I don't think that's easy on a person, especially under the kind of terrorism that doctors of his kind have seen over the past twenty years. He's a tough guy.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsKindPersonsJobsPastGuyEasyTermReligiousLateToughDoctorsTwentiesCommittedTerrorismHardestAssociatesOver The PastTough GuyHardest Job Author:John H Richardson
“I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.” JobsFiveHappenedDeserveTwentiesExcellentAcademicRight TimeRight PlaceTwenty FiveTenurePrinceton Author:Paul Lansky
“I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.” PeopleKnowsStillsFactsJobsMovingChallengesCollegeMomDadInvolvedTwentiesExpectedMoving ForwardGraduatesApartmentMom And Dad Author:Anna Quindlen
“Twenty five years in business, including business with other nations, competing with companies across the world, has given me an understanding of what it is that makes America a good place to grow and add jobs, and why jobs leave America - why businesses decide to locate here, and why they decide to locate somewhere else.” WorldYearsJobsAmericaGivenNationsGrowsUnderstandingCompanyFiveTwentiesAddIncludingFive YearsCompetingSomewhere ElseTwenty FiveGood Place Author:Mitt Romney
“What outsourcing causes - what it's caused by, rather. I understand, for instance, how to read a balance sheet. I happen to believe that having been in the private sector for twenty-five years gives me a perspective on how jobs are created - that someone who's never spent a day in the private sector, like President Obama, simply doesn't understand.” GivingYearsBelieveHappensJobsCausesPresidentFivePerspectiveBalanceGive MeTwentiesInstanceFive YearsPresident ObamaSheetsPrivate SectorTwenty FiveOutsourcingBalance Sheets Author:Mitt Romney
“I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to exist within what the realms of the law. There is space in Rwanda for political parties - if fact we have about a dozen of them - as long as their objective is not to take us back twenty two years. On that point, we are and will always be very vigilant.” IfsYearsLongTwoFactsJobsLawPoliticalMy OwnSpacePartyCreatingTwentiesResponsibleObjectivesRealmsOppositionTwo YearsDozenPolitical PartiesVigilantSuccessorsRwandaTwenty Two Author:Paul Kagame
“My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.” WritingJobsFourWifeInvolvedTwentiesSevenMy WifePublishingPromotionDay Jobs Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“Twenty million jobs is what we call for in the Green New Deal, which is essentially a New Deal focused on greening the economy on an emergency basis. So it's 20 million jobs, which are mixed, private sector, nonprofits, government jobs where others will not do the job and will not create the employment.” GovernmentJobsDealsMillionsEconomyBasesTwentiesGreenFocusedEmploymentEmergenciesPrivate SectorNonprofitsNew DealGreeningGovernment Jobs Author:Jill Stein
“I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.” ThinkingYearsHardSchoolJobsHoursWeekCollegeHigh SchoolTwentiesThirtyFrustratedFormative Years Author:Jon Gordon
“Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingYearsMayHas BeensDifferentHappensWantedSchoolJobsPastPayIssuesNeededTwentiesLeavingNewspapersJournalistTitlesPrintCould Have BeenGood WritingGood ThinkingJob TitlesLeaving School Author:Howard Gardner
“I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.” RealMomentsJobsLastsFoundLostBornTwentiesTrackQuittingMagazinesTiedPackagesTwenty OnePrestigeI QuitTied UpReal JobsSmall Packages Author:Anne Lamott
“One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.” YearsI CanDreamHappensJobsFallCoursesSpeakMy OwnFiveComedyTwentiesProfessionEvolveRisingFive YearsTwenty FiveChanging Course Author:Conan O'Brien
“God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life.” GivingYearsJobsAmericaSexCivilizationSummerShotsTwentiesProofSymbolsBlessDrsReignGreyEightyGod BlessAnatomyHeartwarmingSex SymbolGod Bless AmericaMeatballsGrey's AnatomyCelebsMcdreamy Author:Rob Sheffield
“If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.” IfsYearsHumansLooksChildrenI CanEndsFeelingsProblemJobsNightHumanityChoicesCoursesEvilHuman BeingsMoralTroublePercentTwentiesWingsSurpriseNineRangeAwakeBoredomI've LearnedOverwhelmingCostumesRadarNine YearsSurprise MePlightInsignificanceBad ChoicesAwake At NightMoral Life Author:Douglas Coupland
“I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.” WritingYearsJobsOpportunityStuffChanceBusinessFiveTypeYears AgoTwentiesFinancialQuittingPlentyEnjoyedFive YearsDragonsPlusTwenty FiveI QuitAccountantsAnalystsDay Jobs Author:Patricia C. Wrede
“Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.” WritingJobsNiceTaughtTwentiesOddAshamedRealisingIntrovertWriting LifeNineteenOutgoingExtroverts Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.” IfsKnowsWayMeanPersonsDoeIdeasStoriesKidsJobsLife IsHateRaceAchieveBuildingI HateTwentiesOne WayClockImmortalityDigitalThrowingUnitsReproductionBalloonsTickUsing MeCarrierBlowing UpThings I HateBiological Clock Author:Isobelle Carmody
“I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.” WarShowsJobsPeaceMinutesGunTwentiesSevenThirtySheriffs Author:Ronald Reagan