Aesop Rock Quotes

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.

I did the 'right' thing and got a corporate job on Wall Street. That did not last long. I felt like I was throwing all my years of hard work and relationship-building down the toilet. I eventually quit, went and bought a camera, and built a website. That was the birth of KarenCivil.com.

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.

If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?

A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

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 specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.

There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about her. She was a very, very creative woman, and eventually, she stopped working outside the house, and she just had her own customers whom she made clothes for.

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.

I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as possible so I could hoard time to write.

To have been able to do this for so long and to not have to work a regular job is a thrill.

This is the dream: to make money off of what you love.

In college, where I graduated with a Fashion Merch & Business & Bachelors of Science Degree, I was bored. I just couldn't work a nine-to-five job.

A guy who hates his job isn't going to be too charming at home.

I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that is never out of my rearview. I've never forgotten how much your feet hurt after you've stood on them for like 12 hours. And how the drudgery of a job you hate craps on your entire life; how you treat other people, how you treat yourself, and it really was getting to me.

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore.

I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.