In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you’re not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.
No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it’s crazy sometimes.
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.
The normal state of an actor is unemployed.
I remember my parents were always around, and that was glorious, but as an adult and as an actor I look back now and see, no, they were at home for long stints because they were unemployed.
I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.
It’s time to update our workplace policies to reflect the realities of the 21st-century labor force and to support modern working families. It’s time to continue our nation’s long commitment to supporting unemployed workers by extending emergency unemployment compensation.
I grew up in a quiet suburb in South Texas, and loved the in-your-faceness of the East Village. In the early days, when I was still unemployed, I’d lie on a bench in Tompkins Square Park perusing the listings in the ‘Village Voice’ for a place to live.
When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week – if I’m lucky!
I first picked up a camera when I was like 19 because I was unemployed and starting to get bored, and I was like ‘right, what can I do?’ And vlogging was just the thing that was on the rise, so I was like, ‘let’s give that a go,’ and luckily it turned out very well.
The best way to overcome joblessness is to create a social contract between the public and private sectors to provide decent jobs for the unemployed. The decaying infrastructure of our cities is in urgent need of repair and restoration.
When you’re not successful as a musician, you are oftentimes unemployed.
A lot of unemployed families were moved to Hastings, and places were built for them. They’re communities of unemployed people. It’s been difficult dealing with that.
In one of my secondary schools, the single kindest thing I remember was a teacher who quietly offered to wash the uniform of a friend who was being hounded by children saying he ‘stank’: his mother was unemployed and couldn’t always afford to take his clothes to the launderette.
It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I.
As an actor, we’re unemployed a lot, so I’m familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don’t really want to do to keep the money coming in.
When you talk to unemployed young people you hear one thing above all others – if you haven’t got experience how can you get a job? But if you don’t have a job, how can you get experience?
I’m one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I’m waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
I’ve been incredibly lucky. I know what it’s like to be an unemployed actor, to beat the bricks. I’ve been in the right place at the right time.
My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.
If we discover niche services that have been overlooked in our society, we can create many jobs for the unemployed, retired and young people.
Coming out of Juilliard, I honestly was expecting and willing to be breaking my neck, hustling, and being unemployed for a decade, two decades. I was gritting my teeth, but I was so down to do that.
Washington’s insatiable desire to spend our children’s inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.
We’ve created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it’s very, very difficult to reconnect to society.
I’ve been doing radio since I was 18, and I’ve been unemployed four times from radio for various reasons.
Dhol’ is a light-hearted thriller revolving around four unemployed guys who are chasing money. It’s my first attempt at comedy.
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.
People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.
Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed – to be a student again.
The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.
I’m constantly paranoid that I’ll be unemployed for the rest of my life… and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know… you gotta do what you gotta do.
Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.
For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.
I will never be unemployed.
In fact, black students with college degrees are twice as likely to be unemployed as white students with college degrees. So, to say there there is not an issue for black Americans and Latinos in terms of the opportunity that college is supposed to create would be wrong.
Once I was unemployed and didn’t have money, you can’t just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook… I learned how important the right equipment is.
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.
I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.
I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don’t realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.
In every community there are poor and unemployed people.
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can’t imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I’d curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.
Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.
Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation.
What’s funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed – like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician – which isn’t really true a lot of the time. I don’t reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn’t moderately hard-working.
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