Employment Instability Quotes

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.

When you're working, you're in the present, but you've always got one eye on where your next job might be coming from, and I don't think that will ever go away.

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

We got sacked for the first time when we were just 18 and you realise that this whole industry is transient and changeable.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.

With acting, if you audition terribly, at least you know, 'I messed that up. I was horrible. That's why I didn't get the job.' With modeling, it's like, 'I'm not cool this year; therefore, I'm unemployed for a while.' With modeling, it's just, either you're liked, or you're not.

I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'

As people know in coaching, you can get fired and hired just like that.

Most employers see breaks in employment as a blemish on a resume. In the case of military spouses, however, it's due to their frequent moves.

There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.

You know, and younger people today, you know, they may not have Social Security. They may not have a pension. They may have 17 different jobs. And so they have to be - they have to, you know, establish somewhat of an ownership, you know, mentality.