“With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.” JobsWishDegreesWasteEnvironmentalBiologyChemicalsWarfareTestedLabsSewageChemical Warfare Author:Dustin Lynch
“You’re going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, it’s going to change how we think about work. There’s no way around that. You can’t wish it away.” ThinkingWayJobsWishCan DoEconomyComputerCapability Author:Larry Page
“There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men, the less we care about making the job safer. The Catch-22 of hazardous occupations creates a 'glass cellar' which few women wish to enter. Women are alienated not just out of the fear of being hurt on the job, but by an atmosphere that can make a hazardous job more hazardous than it needs to be.” MenNeedsMightCareJobsWishHurtGlassesAtmosphereOccupationCellarsBeing Hurt Author:Warren Farrell
“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
“Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.” ThinkingMeanWould BeJobsLeftWishCareersKeysEmptyBe GoodGood Job Author:Brad Pitt
“Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.” NeedsJobsWishDifficultDecisionPoliticianLuckGood LuckSchwarzeneggerUnpopular Decisions Author:Clint Eastwood
“I'm human -- all I do is try to do my job. When I don't do it, the way it happened today, it's out of my control. He put the ball in play and it happened to find a hole. I wish I could take it back, but I can't. You move on.” WayTryingHumansI CanPlayTodayJobsMovingWishHappenedBallsHoles Author:Mariano Rivera
“If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.” IfsJobsWishActingSuccessfulDiseaseSkinsUnsuccessful Author:Marlon Brando
“All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.” ChildrenCareJobsWishBitsBabyAdultsCompetitionWho CaresInfantSmall Child Book:TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE Source: TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE
“You can try your passion for a while and see if it works and if it doesn't, at least you tried. I think that's why I quit my job and went back to acting. I said this is what I'm going to dedicate my life to doing because I didn't want to look up and say, "Man I wish I would have been an actor. I wish I would have tried."” IfsThinkingMenWantTryingLooksHas BeensSaidJobsPassionActorsWishActingQuittingLook UpI Quit Author:Jay Ellis