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- Nov 07, 2020
Full-Time Job Quotes
On the grind of work, writing, and getting by.
These quotes look at what becomes a full-time job in unexpected ways - running a record label, or writing a book that stretches into years of effort. See related reflections in our Book quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Content
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.
- Down The Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked a full-time job at a place call Caraustar. We recycle paper, then through recycled paper, we take it and we make V board out of it. If you buy a TV, a new couch, you see these little V boards that make like a V.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020