Work should make people want to come to work.
— Nick Kroll, Sonya the Lovebug (voice), Pamela Adlon, imdb.com
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If you can't afford to pay your workers, you don't deserve their work.
In our always-on, always-connected world, it no longer makes sense to expect employees to work an eight-hour shift and do their jobs successfully.
It’s one thing to pinch-hit for a more senior-level job for a few weeks, but at the pace they’ve moved at so far, you could still be doing it months from now without any change in pay.
The working woman was told she had to think about 'beauty' in a way that undermined, step for step, the way she had begun to think as a result of the successes of the women's movement. This last vital lie applied to individual women's lives the central rule of the myth: For every feminist action the…
What it needed was a replacement shackle, a new material burden that would drain surplus energy and lower confidence, an ideology that would produce the women workers it needs, but only in the mold in which it wants them.
In the West, where paid labor centers on a forty-hour week, the unavoidable fact to confront the power structure is that women newcomers came from a group used to working more than twice as hard and long as men. And not only for less pay; for none.
Nobody does anything worth doing with a degree.
The perfect cover letter is one that’s targeted to the job description, job advertisement, and prospective employer. From what you bring up in your first paragraph (your opening paragraph), second paragraph, and more. Your greeting is a key part of that targeting process. A generic greeting or gener…
Learn how to block out time for you that is just thinking/reflection time. Don't let the busy eat you alive before you notice it's happening. Your reflection time is incredibly valuable!
I set my career up for longevity and I’m gonna have longevity.
Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn’t exist. It’s important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.
I learned the difference between a moment and a career is evolution. Evolution. You will slow down. You will get old. Your body will fail you. So, you evolve, you change your game, you do what you need to do with the time you got. If not, you go extinct. Evolve or go extinct. Are you ready to go ext…
— Jay Baruchel, Jesse Chabot, Xavier Laflamme, Marc-André Grondin, imdb.com
[If] your organization could go under as the result of your leaving, that’s a sign that it wasn’t going to survive anyway.
Can't tell you how strange it is to get pregnant right at the top of my game.
— Catherine Reitman, Kate Foster, Catherine Reitman, imdb.com
You start directing revivals of your own shows, you might as well announce to the world that 'My career's finished.'
My legs are my livelihood.
— Chris Henchy, Doug Ellin, Johnny "Drama" Chase, Kevin Dillon, imdb.com
I can live with being in the line of fire, made a career out of it, but my family?
A lot of people think you look back and you say, 'Wow, what a successful career. It’s just amazing. It’s fantastic.' But I remember the flops, too. Those flops don’t go away.
It was a way to get money to smoke and get pizza and go to a movie.