Career Mismatch Quotes

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.

Dean is a doctor but he acts more like a postal worker!

I've actually done bands where it was my band and it was never fun and it wasn't the right place for me and, whatever, it felt weird.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

My first job was at the BBC but was really dull. I was working in the BBC's reference department, where I did a lot of filing. I had always been interested in films and theatre, so I thought that getting a job at the BBC would be a good idea, but the job was really mundane.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

I didn't like law. Every client had a problem, and I didn't want to listen to people's problems; I had enough of my own.

I thought to myself, 'All right, let's take a look at your resume. You have no financial background. You have basketball, that's what you have, for your whole life.'

Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.

I graduated with all honors, and I was about to take the LSATs, and I was working at a law firm, and I hated it.

The mercantile business did not suit me.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

I was like, 'I'm an academic!' I'm not at all. It turns out I'm not great at that.

My mom just wanted me to do anything that was academic, whether it was become a doctor or be a lawyer. Engineering suited her... then I dropped out. It was not what I wanted to do at all; it just felt so unnatural, and I couldn't put my finger on why. I just knew it wasn't for me.

There are no doctors in my family, and I've joked about this, that my dad got the doctor daughter he always wanted. But I would make a terrible doctor - I hate the sight of blood!

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.

Probably being in politics is the worst place for me to be.

I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company.

I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.

I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.