Job Unhappiness Quotes

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

Even the worst job has its benefits and so does being a professional literary agent, and - I know I said this at the time but I still believe it - the worst job is the one that you know is wrong for you, but you still do it. You're afraid to quit.

1 out of 3 Americans says, "I hate my job." 80-plus percent say, "I'm ill-equipped and unenthused about my work."

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

I don't wish my career on anyone.

I'm an actress but it's not fulfilling me in the way I thought it would.

In all honesty, I hope I don't coach again.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.

90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

Of course I think everybody has moments in their careers when they're frustrated, or you're not happy with the current situation.

I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

I have career ADD, he says. I have career dissatisfaction. Even as a young kid, I'd have that. I'd get really passionate about something and then I'd realize, 'I don't want to do that!

When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

I feel every profession suffers from a little bit of dissatisfaction from time to time. Even I do feel that way as far as my career is concerned.