Job Transition Quotes

I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

I'd never worked for anyone else until I got to the NFL, and this will be my last time working for someone else.

I had a great ten years at Fox, but it's also been fun being a free agent.

In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

I often run teaching down in my standup, but I had some great years, and it's a great job. It represented a place where I knew what I wanted to do but didn't have the courage.

I took a $40k pay cut to leave my technical copywriter job and work for $6k a year.

When I decided to leave the military, I realized that the skills I acquired there were transferable to the commercial world both in leadership and the information technology field. I made the decision to move to Oracle because of its strong leadership role.

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

I'd love to try my hand at something else.

I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.

When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.