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Quotes About Employment

I shall stick to it," she continued, smiling. "I am not saying it to educate you; it is what I really think. I believe that in the last century men have developed the desire for work, and they must not starve it. It's a new desire. It goes with a great deal that's bad, but in itself it's good, and I hope that for women, too, 'not to work' will soon become as shocking as 'not to be married' was a hundred years ago.
~ E.M. Forster
Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I'd learn. Nothing was going to stop me.
~ E.R. Braithwaite
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
~ Ed Bradley
succeeded in making a small, jerky motion. "I was only doing my job.
~ Edie Claire
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever
~ Edmund Burke
Never fire anyone until it is convenient for you.
~ Edward C. Moroney, Jr.
Drivers wanted.
~ Anonymous
Though little, I'll work as hard as a Turk,If you'll give me employ,To plow and sow, and reap and mow,And be a farmer's boy.
~ Anonymous
If you are a gardener, you can always put "Plant Manager" on your résumé.
~ Anonymous
I've used up all my sick days so I'm calling in dead.
~ Anonymous
I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?
~ Anonymous
Work to ride and ride to work.
~ Anonymous
It's all in the day's work.
~ Anonymous
There are many people in this world," Himerius says, "who do not care to what purposes their engines are put. So long as they are paid.
~ Anthony Doerr
employers have resorted to requiring a college degree. They do this not for anything the employee may have learned in college but to ensure that he will be able to read and count, and will show up on time. It's a mechanism, that's all. It helps keep the government overseer off their backs, lest they exert a human judgment not approved by their betters. So
~ Anthony Esolen
In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I tried to get a job in a freak show," he [Gregor] went on, "but they said I was overqualified. So I became the porter at Groosham Grange.
~ Anthony Horowitz
If we want to grow our economy and help families return to work, we need to support child care providers.
~ Ned Lamont
A job provides so much more than a paycheck. It provides a sense of dignity and belonging. It gives you the opportunity to learn, grow, and be part of a team - or, in my case, part of a band.
~ Arnel Pineda
TaskRabbit is making life better for both consumers and Taskers. In the communities in which we operate, TaskRabbit provides strong economic impact.
~ Stacy Brown-Philpot
As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.
~ David Gauke
Growth is essential to providing economic opportunity.
~ Jim Gray
The oil boom is providing Montanans an opportunity for good paying jobs.
~ Steve Bullock
Too many families know what it's like to have to choose between providing care for a family member and keeping their job.
~ Chris Murphy