As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.
I'm working myself to death.
You get burned out very quickly. You can sprint 100 yards, but you cant sprint a mile, and these jobs are all sprints.
Explaining the short average tenure of high level government jobs:
The animal industry has sucked the life out of me for the past 20 years. I need a break.
There's a lot of reasons I had to move on. Family's definitely a big part of it. And the longevity of my career - I played for 15 years, and I was just tired of the whole international scene. It's quite busy. Very stressful.
A lot of times in our jobs, we go day-to-day, we're in a routine, we sometimes become robots.
I have gone long stretches of working 60 to 80 hours per week.
It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.
Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
In any profession it gets to be a grind.
Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.
I need a break from politics, that's for sure. This is the hardest job in America.
When you are moulding 30 an hour, it takes its toll on your body. It got to the point where my back was just hanging off. It was time to say, 'I can't do this any more'.
When you go to a film set, of course you're going to do your job, and you're excited about being there, but you somehow feel fatigued that you are just doing this day in and day out.
I've seen a lot of teachers come and go, and you do three or four years, and it's exhausting.
A lot of people say I look like a rock star or a designer punk. But I swear it's the job that has carved my face. It's the hours, the stress, and the pressure. It's not me trying to look like this.