I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.
When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.
When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.
I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.
Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.
When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.
I want to do everything. That's my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.
I try not to look back on my career.
I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.