Career Disruption Quotes

We have caused them to be barren and unemployed though each of them had been working and qualified in a trade from which he could make a living.

Harvard graduates being laid off. How can that be?

I was working with the fire service in a job that should have been a job for life, with career progression, with a pension and promotion, and within a year I was sleeping on a sofa under a section 21 notice being evicted from my home and not eating or four days.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

I was considered one of RCA's brightest young people. Then one day, I found out we'd been sold. They didn't even consult me.

Every time someone makes a mistake, and mistakes are made in this business, careers are ruined.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired.

Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

After college, I became a geologist, mapping what lay beneath the earth's surface. I thought I had my life pretty figured out and all my boxes checked. But then, I was laid off - along with thousands of other geologists. I lost not only my job, but also my profession.

The question for so many is the quality of work, the future of work under globalism and de-industrialization. A typical example is a person who had a good factory job making 80,000 dollars, with health insurance, who was able to send his kids possibly to college and then he or she suddenly loses that job because the factory closed down. And now that same person is bagging groceries at Walmart and making $35,000.

I was very young at Manchester United, and I feel that I was just starting to find my feet when I was sold and Rooney was brought in.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.

I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.

I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

There are any number of reasons many talented people, particularly women, leave their careers for a period of time.

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to take care of yourself.

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be out for a while, it's gut-wrenching. It almost feels like your life is over because that's all you've ever worked for.

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.