I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

Deeley’s remark frames work as an ongoing education rather than a fixed ladder of “good” and “bad” jobs. The emphasis on keeping one’s “eyes and ears open” suggests that growth depends less on prestige and more on attentiveness, humility, and curiosity. In this view, every role—however temporary or menial—can teach transferable skills: communication, time management, teamwork, resilience, or reading people and situations. The quote also implies agency: learning is not automatic but requires receptivity. As career advice, it encourages people to treat each job as practice and to extract value from experience even when the work is not a perfect fit.