Quotes About Career

If you think having a tech job is the answer to all your problems, think again.

With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.

The big problem is that a lot of Americans, whether they are underrepresented minorities or from rural areas, do not know about career opportunities in the tech industry because they may not have had role models who are part of this field or learned about STEM in school.

As someone who's been lucky to have a great career in tech, I know how creative and fulfilling a career in this industry can be for women. And I want to make sure we continue to recruit and retain great female hires.

When I went into a start-up in tech, I knew I could always go back to a law firm.

I've spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.

My partner, Nik, is a full-time dad and I am working on Phenomenal full time. Nik was in tech forever, but he decided to take some time to think about his next steps after we had our second child.

In college, if anyone asked me - professors or classmates - I said, 'I want to be a lab tech.' Because I was afraid that people would laugh at me if I said I wanted to be a doctor.

My daughter was 10 years old when she told me she hated computers. As someone who has spent her career helping build one of the largest tech companies in the world, I was in shock. Suddenly an issue I faced repeatedly at work - the lack of women in tech - hit squarely at home.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.

Working with a Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, I introduced a bill to strengthen our nation's career and technical education programs and more closely align them with the needs of local businesses and industries.

I took a $40k pay cut to leave my technical copywriter job and work for $6k a year.

I always wanted to have a technical career that was also creative. I have been extremely lucky in that sense to be able to combine those two things.

I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercials, actually, and helped pay my rent and my classes. Then I'd get one good line or two good scenes. I was building my career and building my own experience and learning technically what it was like to be on a set and all of those things.

Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.

Technically, my first paying job was I was an extra in my dad's movie 'Dan in Real Life.'

Me and Cate Blanchett have the same job, technically.

At the time I retired I was kind of known for it, as one of the guys whose career ended technically as a result of a big hit.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

When I was 19, I went door to door selling long-distance phone service to put myself through school. I was studying to become a computer graphic technician. I always got strangers saying, 'You should model; you should act.' A co-worker finally said, 'Go see this acting coach.'