But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
… a steady job with decent pay and health benefits, rising living standards, a home of your own, secure retirement, and the hope that your children would enjoy a better future.
I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
I wanted a stable job, and I wanted to feel like I was grounded with my family and to have personal relationships in my life that were healing and honest and genuine.
Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.
My father drove a truck, and my mother was a school teacher. They wanted their children to go the traditional route: get good grades, go to college, get a job.
I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.
I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.
My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.
Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.
The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.
My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.
For the working actor, there's nothing more stable than a network television show.
We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.
I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.
I want a regular pay cheque.
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
My job, at the very least, doesn't change at all.
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
I always wanted to be a designer and always felt surprised as a child when my sister used to deliberate about whether to be a nurse or a teacher.
