Job Duration Quotes

If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.

My average duration in a job is more like six months, because I've done crisis and turnaround stuff for two decades. I've been in a lot of companies and not-for-profits and institutions that were really on fire; in a lot of ways, the Senate is the least urgent, least serious institution I've ever worked in.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good.

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.

You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it.

Six years of your life is a long time to do anything, and especially in this business, where you get so used to being nomadic and moving on to different jobs.

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

It's very, very hard to hire people, qualified people. And a lot of people didn't want the job because it's a three- or four-month job.

I have said I will not have a 30-year run like my father for a variety of reasons.

A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it's over - but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure.

I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.

I love my job every day. So whether it's for four years or for two weeks, it's still... And when you're working on a set, it feels like a family straight away.

A lot of the people that we have made offers to, and where we make offers, when they hear it's a part-time job, or a it's four-month or five-month job - and I understand this - they're not interested. They're American people. They're not interested.