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Quotes About Employment

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isolated.
~ Unknown
Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.
~ Unknown
Women now were expected to quit work when they started having babies. The postwar U.S. government made this clear. There was no more state-sponsored child care. In a postwar, Cold War America, child care was viewed with suspicion, as the kind of thing communists used to raise their children collectively. The U.S. government began doing the opposite of its wartime recruiting; it made propaganda-type films telling women it was important to leave their jobs, return home, and tend their households.
~ Liza Mundy
newspaper want ads that read "Male
~ Liza Mundy
One electrical company asked for twenty female engineers from Goucher, with the added request, "Select beautiful ones for we don't want them on our hands after the war.
~ Liza Mundy
It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.
~ Unknown
Josh had made a lot of mistakes in his life, and he'd tried to learn from all of them. He definitely tried to not repeat them. Hiring Grace had been his favorite mistake so far.
~ Jill Shalvis
Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence
~ Jim Butcher
Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.
~ Jim Butcher
medications, but everything was under control." "Did Clayton give a reason why he wanted to quit working?
~ Joanne Fluke
You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Torn clothes are funny … until your dad gets fired.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)
~ Habeeb Akande
Employment deprives you of purpose
~ Sunday Adelaja
The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work
~ Sunday Adelaja
OSHA's lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.
~ Steven Magee
If you have no job, help is needed.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.
~ Ben Carson
We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.
~ Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
~ George Burns
Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.
~ Anonymous
I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
~ Oscar Levant