Contract Work Quotes

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government job.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period of time, and you are only as good as the last contract you have got, as the last job you have done, where the notion of a precarious existence does exist, as it does for a lot of people.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might say, 'Hey, we need someone,' in his office, and then I will have a month or two weeks or whatever somewhere. I was - I taught fiction workshops.

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

I'm the only person I know who's never had a regular job.

No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

I don't hate people. I just accept missions.

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

I don't get holiday, I'm self-employed. That's a really big risk for anyone in telly.

This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

For years and years, I was doing extra work and guest spots and anything I could cobble together.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

For now ACID Kreationz has only one body and that's me. I have intentions of hiring persons when I am through with university. For now it is only me but off and on I contract sound producers and other persons when the need arises.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.

I don't say that I have a job. I have a gig, or a piece, or a film, or a show, but it's never a job.

Zero-hours contracts offer an entry point for people who are either new to the workforce or have commitments that make it hard to work full-time.

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.

Any time you have to tell work where you're at and what you're doing, that's considered an employee, not a contractor.