“I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you
don't quit a career.”
Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City
Source: Summer and the City
“My approach to the job can be summed up pretty simply — I never viewed politics as my career.”
Governor's Travels : How I Left Politics, Learned to Back Up a Bus, and Found America (2011)
Context: My approach to the job can be summed up pretty simply — I never viewed politics as my career. Important, yes, worthy of intense commitment, of course — but it was not my whole life. … I saw politics as a way to make a contribution and satisfy my penchant for public policy, but not as something I couldn't live without.
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