Temporary Job Quotes

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government job.

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.

The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.

Once you're finally in a place at Saturday Night Live that you're really comfortable, that's when you should probably be leaving, unfortunately. I think most people stay two or three years longer than they should, because it's very simple, the vacations are great, and you get good at what you do. It's like any job, you're like, "Oh, I know how to do this." You know it's a temporary thing, but it's easy not to walk away from. You find yourself going, "I'll leave next year, or I'll leave the year after." But it's a job you probably shouldn't be at for longer than five years, to be honest.

For three months, when I was 23 years old, I worked as a clerk at Wandsworth Sewer.

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.

Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director. I know that I've definitely found what I should be doing with my life. In my life, as far as my career goes, I always felt, as an actor, that it was something that would just be a temporary thing that would get me to what I wanted to do next. That's what my acting did.

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to job. By virtue, acting is an unsure profession.

The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.

I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.

I was studying to be a dental hygienist and working as a dental assistant. I met a photographer and decided to put my job on hold for just a summer to begin modeling.

I worked at Wendy's for a week.

I usually do films, and you do two months and then forget about it.

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable.