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The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.
Sep 30, 2025
The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country.
I've always wanted an office job so I can tell someone, "I'm going to take a long lunch," or "I'm out of the office." I don't know why, but I've always seen so much stability in clocking in.
I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.
When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from the council estate into our own house and for the first time in my life, I had a little spare money.
If I worked at White Globe Consulting, I wouldn't be able to do my job. I would spend all day texting the other people in the office, asking them what was going on today and had they heard anything new and what did they think was going to happen. Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not in an office job.
It’s much harder for me... I think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you come home in the evening. When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, 'We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,' and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.
Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.
I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.
I started treating my career as if it was a guarantee,if things get difficult and things don't work out, I'm not gonna think I have a Plan B, which is grad school, or Plan C, which is an office job. I'm just gonna have a Plan A, a Plan A 2.0, a Plan A 3.0, and that's what I'm going to do. Because entertainment and YouTube are always going to be my Plan A.
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
One of my first office jobs was cleaning the windows on brown envelopes.
Some of you guys must have real jobs - office jobs. Anybody? By a show of broken spirits.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.
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