Ira Glass Quotes

For the majority of my career, I've been surprised that I've been able to sustain any kind of a plan. I was always happy to have the job, and I was having a good time. I was growing. But I don't feel all that strongly about my work.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

I don't need a job. I don't want an appointment. I don't want to be on a commission. I don't want to be ambassador to nowhere.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

I am interested in what I earn; I am interested in my growth.

I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

Every job I take, I really want to learn something.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

A job provides so much more than a paycheck. It provides a sense of dignity and belonging. It gives you the opportunity to learn, grow, and be part of a team - or, in my case, part of a band.

Stay as connected as you can. Sometimes that means you're going to do a job that may not pay you much but may give you a great connection. If the work is not going the way you need it to go, create your own!

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

When I realized, "Hm, I'm not that good at all. It will take me weeks, maybe months, to master the 32 yolks." When I did, it was a turning point in my career.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

I'm not motivated by money and I never really have been.