"I tried to live the dream. I tried to have a job, a girlfriend, another job, and I failed. But the good thing about the American dream is that you can just go to sleep and try it all again the next night."
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This quote was said by Michael Scott played by Steve Carrel from the show "The Office". Before he said this he was trying to balance two full time jobs and a girlfriend. Michael was short on money, and his girlfriend had lost her job so he was running a little short on money. He had a job as a regional manager at a small paper company called Dunder Mifflin, although that wasn't providing him with enough money for him and his girlfriend. No one knew that he was having money problems though. So to earn more money Michael got another full time job as a telemarketer. Between two full time jobs, sleeping, and seeing his girlfriend he was having a hard time balancing everything and still performing well at both of his full time jobs. After about of week of trying to balance everything he was starting to show the effects of being so busy and not getting enough sleep. Michaels loved both of his jobs but couldn't juggle them both. His american dream was to balance two jobs and have a girlfriend but he was having a hard time doing it all. His boss at the paper company noticed that Michael was extremely tired and asked him if he had another job. His boss told Michael that he could only have one job if he wanted to work at Dunder Mifflin. Michael quit his job as a telemarketer but was still short on money. His girlfriend then found out but she was fine with it, and told him he should have told her and the would have worked it out. Michael Scott tried to live his american dream of having two jobs and a girlfriend but he just couldn't balance it all successfully. But Michael wisely says that that's the good thing about the american dream; that you can go to sleep and try it all over agin the next day. Although for Michael his dream was never about the money, he just wanted to have a girlfriend and two jobs. He said "I was never in this for the money. But it turns out that the money was an absolute necessity for me." Michaels dream wasn't all about money but he realized that he needed money in order to live his american dream.