Jeryl Prescott Quotes

I did engineering, and when people asked me my career plans, I used to say I would do an MBA.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

I had a career. His name was Ike.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids.