Best Day Job Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I always find it interesting the way golfers relax. You've got the painters or the readers like Luke Donald, but if I went down that route, I'd find my mind drifting and thinking about the day job.”

“My day job has always been in the theatre.”

“I started my company Harbortouch when I was 16 and that's still my day job so I never had any break from the action to ever think about joining the military.”

“This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.”

“You should never quit your day job.”

“I wanna be a manager, because that's my day job. It's my real job.”

“I've got so much going on in my day job. And I've been around politics enough to know all the swirl that's fit to print, and so I focus on the reality of the here and now.”

“My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.”

“I have a day job where I make money and satisfy my self-esteem. Writing is for fun, and I want to keep it that way.”

“I call Earth, Wind & Fire my day job and my solo career my night gig.”

“My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering restaurants. The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.”

“I've started calling fashion my day job.”

“I was a sign language interpreter from when I was 17, but I don't do that anymore. Both of my parents were deaf. I grew up in a deaf household. I don't do any jokes about it really, but yeah that was my day job.”

“I will be doing a lot of human interest interviews. It involves empathising and listening. Which is a lot of what my day job is about. And, frankly, the priesthood isn't without its element of showbusiness.”

“A lot of people put out an album, and you never hear from them again. They're working a day job or doing whatever to survive through life.”

“I used to like to come up with inventions because I hated working so much when I had my day job. I thought, 'All I need is a great idea, and I'm out of here.'”

“My day job keeps me grounded. When I show up to work, I'm not some star fighter or anything, I'm just Stipe. I'm going to keep working in my hometown as long as I can.”

“I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.”

“A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.”

“In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.”

“Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'”

“I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.”

“All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.”

“I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.”

“I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.”

“My day job these days is I am writing, producing and developing young artists here in the States, in between working on my own stuff.”

“I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.”

“I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.”

“Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.”

“I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.”

“Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.”

“I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.”

“To be in a band with the other founding members that never sleep is inspiring. Questlove put out five books a year and deejays every night and still do the same day job that I do, only with more responsibility. It drives me to find a way to juggle it.”

“Put it this way: singing is not my day job.”

“I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate.”

“I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a day job at Universal publicity department, then moved over to Disney publicity department. So I had this day job, and at night I would study music.”

“I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.”

“I won't give up my day job of design.”

“I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.”

“Matchmaking was too fun that it satisfied me so much that I just wasn't writing. And the whole idea of being a matchmaker was a day job. It was meant to help support me while I was a writer. I was like, This doesn't make any sense that I'm just now obsessed with my day job. So I think that's why I stopped.”

“I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.”

“I think whether it's a good idea or not to take the startup plunge comes down to the responsibilities of the individual. If you have a family to care for or a huge mortgage payment, then quitting your steady day job to launch a startup probably isn't the best decision to make.”

“If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.”

“I never wanted to be an actor, and then 'GH' was the first time where my managers were like, 'Quit your day job. You got a thing.'”

“No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.”

“My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio.”

“I still have a day job, so I don't think I'll be a full-time Shark, but if they ever invited me back, I'd be more than happy to do it.”

“In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.”

“I recommend everyone who DJ's to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ's in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.”

“I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.”

“I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!”

“Hollywood is my day job.”

“I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular day job where you get to do what you love.”

“When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.”

“I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.”

“If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.”

“My day job is making TV shows.”

“I come from a very normal day job, a very normal upbringing, so I had six or seven years working in an office nine to five in human resources. I had the normal life and kind of thought maybe this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life but still had that passion and that yearning for music.”

“I didn't want a day job anymore, so I somehow made the jewelry line work. Now that I look back on it, it was, like, the dumbest idea ever. Everyone and their mother has a jewelry line, so in retrospect, maybe not the smartest fallback plan. But it ended up working out great!”

“I've always had a day job and never been just acting.”

“For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.”

“When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.”

“It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.”

“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.”

“I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.”

“I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.”

“I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.”

“I'm terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that's why I'm training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.”

“Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.”

“Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.”

“I was working in a day job in marketing but I had my sights on doing an open-mic night.”

“The guys have told me not to quit my day job.”

“I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.”

“If you want to provide for your family, maybe show business is not a high degree of success. You will need to keep your day job until you make it, and know it's an odds thing just like the NFL. I personally wouldn't recommend anybody to go into this business.”

“I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.”