Jeff Greenfield Quotes

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I never could get a proper job.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

People are really worried about their jobs. That's what everybody talks to me about today.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

The minute your membership looses a job that can be identified, economic theory goes out the window. You're dealing with frightened human beings.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

I think about work all the time. I was in my bathroom yesterday and thought, 'I could never work again.' I don't have a job lined up right now - what if I never get another one?