work dissatisfaction Quotes

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

As a TV actor, I was making money and spending it and always felt a certain void in terms of work.

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

I think Amazon is a place where people don't want to work.

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

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.

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

I am around ladies' clothing all day long, and I get real sick of clothes.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.

I'd rather be dead than work in a warehouse.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

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

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill.

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.

People would pay money to work at CNN.

TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.