- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Job Quotes
What a job costs, and what it takes.
Quotes about "job" here focus on careers in the arts — a warning that a comfortable day job can quietly end a musician's ambitions, and advice to take any first job just to get into the industry. For work-focused reflection, see Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking things like, 'I will never get hired for this job,' or 'Nobody ever listens to me,' can alter your behavior in a way that makes those predictions come true.
- Deduce
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.
- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping - insurance agencies, nonprofits - and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn't even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strangely enough, my favorite airport is Logan Airport in Boston - but largely for sentimental reasons. My first real summer job was working as a journeyman for the airport's resident maintenance crew - a small army of union electricians, plumbers, and carpenters.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020