Quotes About Employment

what oral historian Studs Terkel called "a Monday through Friday kind of dying.

FIGURE 2-1 US employment in occupations based on importance of originality to job performance

Contrary to conventional wisdom, what makes a job low skilled is not the nature of the work it entails, or the credentials required, but whether or not the people performing the task have the opportunity to grow their capabilities and tackle novel problems. The most important lesson to be gleaned from post-bureaucratic pioneers is that it's possible to radically upskill what would otherwise be regarded as low-skilled jobs

FIGURE 3-3 Bureaucrats and bureaucratic work as a percentage of the US workforce

A person of limited intelligence but high conscientiousness can make a valuable employee; a person of higher intelligence but very low conscientiousness is almost unemployable.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard work is when someone pays you to do something you'd rather not be doing. anytime you'd rather be doing something other than the thing you're doing...you're doing hard work.

I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.

If free trade can really turn all these Third World countries into thriving economies full of entrepreneurs and investors, who's gonna clean the fuckin' toilets around here?

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

Because of the runaway loss of satisfying work, education has radically changed.

Pensions, even by those who advocate for them, are often framed as benefits—"extras" granted by an employer to the employed. Yet what is a pension, really? A pension is delayed payment for work already done.

The problem in business isn't that women are overlooked because they are women, it's that most people subconsciously look to employ a mini-me. It's not a gender issue, it's about diversification full stop. It's hard to change that mindset and it hits women particularly hard because men historically have always been the recruiters.

The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?

In addition to pain, disability, and disfigurement, lymphatic filariasis carries a heavy social cost. Those disfigured by the disease are often shunned. Women are often rejected by their families. Both men and women can have difficulty finding jobs.

I do try to think if I can afford not to do something I don't want to do, and if I can, then I don't do it, that's for sure. But the consequence of that is that you can be unemployed, it can make you feel ghastly, because you wonder if you will ever work again.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

With the right support and reasonable adjustments, autistic people make wonderful employees.

I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school.

The last time I was unemployed was 1989, and I've seen the research on retired people and how they feel about it. I'm definitely wired in a way that you wouldn't predict it would go wonderfully.

I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a certain role or if you're going to be employed the next year. It's nice to be comfortable with that and then you can concern yourself with the stories and nothing else. There's no other agenda than putting out a good product.

Mandatory stints in the private economy before college enrollment could do wonders for study skills.

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?