Esther McVey Quotes

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

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 haven't got a real job.

These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

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.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

I want to be a professional.

When I got tired of going to school, I was kind of overqualified for a lot of jobs. Kind of underqualified for a lot of others.

I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

We need to focus on jobs.

Working at the White House is an honor for any preacher's kid from Magnolia, but the issue is jobs.

I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.

Stop looking for the 'right' career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what's available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable. You can always quit later, and be no worse off than you are today.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study.