I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.
Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.
I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.
I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.
In 2009, I was living in London and getting work I enjoyed.
I don't work 9 to 5.
Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.
I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.