Job Anxiety Quotes

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

Every job still feels like the first time.

Of course, any job is scary, but you tackle the challenges head on and hope for the best.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.

When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.

When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

There's nothing worse when you have a job, and you read something, and you're like, 'God. How am I possibly going to make this work?'

For me, for every single job, I don't care if it is a reading, I don't care if it is a guest spot on a TV show, or a film. I always get the heebie jeebies.

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.

Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I'm quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I'm just really loving it and feeling great, and it's all over.

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.

The working hours are easy in films, while there is always an anxiety on television. So the energies are very different.

If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.