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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.
I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.
Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.
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.
When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.
One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.
Any degree of unemployment worries me.
I genuinely have to work - I don't have enough money not to. But the last thing I would want is to be looked after.
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