Unstable Employment Quotes

Democracy is a fickle employer.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

I was working with the fire service in a job that should have been a job for life, with career progression, with a pension and promotion, and within a year I was sleeping on a sofa under a section 21 notice being evicted from my home and not eating or four days.

However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Some people welcome the flexibility of a zero-hours contract. But their growth is symptomatic of a wider issue - increasing job insecurity and falling living standards in David Cameron's Britain.

I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.

Universal Credit claimants who refuse to accept a zero hours contract job offer, without good reason, can be subject to a sanction.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then Thomas Cook and Sons. The last job was particularly interesting, but I got fired from it.

My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

In this business, you can come and go in a second.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

I went from being a hustler, working different jobs to renting rooms off Craigslist, and I just wasn't happy.

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.