I’m a ‘Bridesmaids’ type of girl. I love silliness. That’s who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that’s great. But comedy is my forte.
All I wanted to do was come into my own and find out my career path and what I wanted to do with my life – but, at the same time, showing respect to my father and mother and make them proud as well.
Super blessed to be in the position I’m in. To be able to inspire people to do what I’m doing and choose a career path that doesn’t involve going to school, or like following society.
We need to encourage girls, while they are at school, to know that no career path is closed to them, and to take pride in having ambitions.
You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.
I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.
When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of ‘Reason’ when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist’s normal career path.
During my career path, I’ve experienced first-hand what people deem as beautiful. It’s not me. It’s not most people. It’s limited and small.
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.
My dad has an incredible passion for living life, and he’s really, really funny, so he definitely encourages me to enjoy all aspects of life. He’s very proud of me and definitely encourages my career path, and we have a good time talking about work.
You have to be strategic with your career path and set a goal for yourself so you’re not wandering aimlessly.
I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.
Three-quarters of our sites – Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker – are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That’s the career path.
I absolutely have loved my career path and everything that I’ve done personally, but it was tough.
I was in Girls’ Generation because of luck, and fortunately, Girls’ Generation received a lot of love. I would want to help my daughter walk a different career path.
When I was a CEO, I thought I understood private equity. I didn’t. And what I’ve learned since my retirement, and since becoming directly involved in the world of private equity, points the way to a new career path for thousands of talented senior executives – and a new engine for value creation.
If my career path takes me elsewhere, that’s great. But comedy is my forte.
I don’t think there’s ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, ‘Yes, I’ve made a success of this career path.’ You never feel like you’ve done your best work. You always think you could be better.
I’ve never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might ‘take me.’ My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
My first job with Walmart was unloading trucks in a warehouse. Then I worked as an assistant manager in a store, and I was lucky enough to get into our buyer-training program. I loved merchandising and had a career path that led me through Sam’s Club and Walmart International.
Boxing is one of the hardest jobs in the world, so when I found my career path, what I’d learnt in the boxing gym meant I was head and shoulders above everybody else.
Professionalism and punctuality are extremely important, especially in the career path I’ve chosen. Being on sets, film schedules can be very stringent and tight. They are sometimes at odd hours in various locations. Being there when you’re called just ensures that the day starts smoothly.
When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there’s no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of people have to struggle with.
I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.
In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.
Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn’t that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story.
I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of ‘I Love Lucy’ on TV and thinking about making people laugh.
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.
I’ve been working on this career path of mine since I was three years old.
Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It’s awesome, and it’s out of your control, and it’s not a career path.
For so many generations, a woman’s only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of ‘Reason’ when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist’s normal career path.
I’m trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I’m on my own career path, and I don’t really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I’m just doing my own thing.
Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It’s what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.
I wasn’t one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: ‘I want to do that!’ I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
I’ve never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might ‘take me.’ My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.
As a creative person, you have to keep going. There’s no defined career path. There’s no security.
I have always been musically inclined, whether it’s been playing the santoor from a young age or writing poetry that has now evolved into songwriting. So, I wouldn’t really call it a focus shift, but just pursuing a career path I am passionate about.
I’d change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That’s just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.
It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.
I have never, for better or worse, thought about a ‘career path’ or anything like that.
I definitely have, on paper, an unorthodox career path. And from childhood onward, I was always fascinated by the outdoors and wildlife.
By high school, I was telling everyone, ‘Oh, I’m going to be a doctor when I grow up,’ because my dad was always saying to me, ‘Pick a career path where you’re always going to be necessary.’ But by junior year, I was president of choir, I was the lead in the school play, and I just loved being onstage performing.
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